Ocean Productivity

What is upwelling?

• When hot water and cold water mix

• When winds push the warm water and cold nutrient rich water replaces it at the surface

• When the cold nutrient rich water sinks to the bottom

• When the hot water with nutrients rises to the surface

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Why is wind important for upwelling?

• Wind moves the fish

• Wind is needed to push the cold water from the surface

• Wind is needed to push the warm water away from the surface

• Wind drops the nutrients in the ocean

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What is the Coriolis effect?

• The rotation of Earth that causes object to move not in a straight line like wind

• Earth's gravity that causes the winds

• Earth's gravitational pull from the moon that causes tides

• The moon causing the currents as it rotates around Earth

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What is more dense?

• Warm water

• Cold Water

Why do nutrients need to be at the surface?

• Food for zooplankton

• Fertilizer for phytoplankton

• Food for salmon

• Doesn't matter

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Why is upwelling important?

• Brings up fertilizer for phytoplankton to bloom

• Causes hot water to move

• Feeds the salmon

• Moves around the wind

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Why is phytoplankton important? Select all that are true

• They provide 90% of the world's oxygen

• They provide 50% of world's oxygen

• They eat orca whales

• They are the basis of the marine food chain

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What does the food chain show?

• Flow of energy in an ecosystem

• Flow of forces in an ecosystem

• Flow of matter in an ecosystem

• Life cycles

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Deep ocean currents are caused by

• Wind

• Differences in densities

• Differences in temperature

• Cold and warm air currents

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Surface currents in the ocean are caused by

• Hot and cold temperatures

• Differences in Density

• Wind

• Hurricanes

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