Oceanography

What are the 2 areas of the Ocean Floor

• shoreline and mid-ocean ridge

• continental margin and ocean basin

• continental shelf and ocean basin

• land and water

What do you call a place where fresh water and salt water meet?

• a marsh

• a swamp

• a river

• an estuary

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What are Phytoplankton?

• that one eyed thing from spongebob

• microscopic animals

• microscopic plants

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What is Salinity

• The amount of dissolved solids in the water

• The amount of salt in the water

• The rapid temperature change as you go deeper in water

How much of the ocean water is H2O?

• 3.5%

• 95.6%

• 96.5%

• 97.1%

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How much of the ocean water is dissolved gases and solids?

• 3.5%

• 96.5%

• 5.3%

• 3.4%

What´s the average Salinity of ocean water?

• 34%

• 44%

• 35%

• 23%

What can increase Salinity?

• Large amounts of evaporation

• Large amounts of water being washed into the ocean

• An increase of CO2 in the water

• An increase of H2O in the water

How much Salt is in 1000 grams of seawater

• 84 grams

• 34 grams

• 63 grams

• 35 grams

Oceanography is the Study of

• all aspects of the ocean

• marine animals and plants

• how salty water is

• only fish

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