Properties of Water

What is Boyle's Law?

• As pressure increases, volume decreases

• As pressure increases, volume increases

• Pressure and Volume are constant

• Pressure is not related to volume

What is one source of salt in the ocean?

• Hydrothermal Vents

• Fish Sweat

• Rainfall

• Nitrogen Cycle

Aquatic Environments that experience high rainfall are likely to have what?

• Low salinity

• Rainfall

• Algal Blooms

• High Salinity

If the buoyant force is equal to the object's WEIGHT, the object will do what?

• Float

• Sink

• Flip

• Tilt

Phytoplankton blooms occur when?

• Excess nutrients

• low pH

• Increase in salinity

• Decrease in salinity

Density is defined as what?

• Mass / Volume

• Volume / Mass

• Mass x Volume

• Mass x Gravity

What property of water is exemplified in the picture?

• Cohesion

• Adhesion

• Surface Tension

• Capillary Action

If the temperature of water increases, the density of water will do what?

• Increase

• Decrease

• Stay the same

What property of water is being illustrated in the picture?

• Cohesion

• Capillary Action

• Buoyancy

• Refraction

A substantial change in salinity is known as a what?

• Halocline

• Thermocline

• Pycnocline

• Dead Zone