Upwelling and Productivity

An ocean current that brings deep, cold, nutrient-rich water to the surface.

• Upwelling

• Tides

• Salinity

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Upwelling brings cold water because the bottom of the ocean doesn't get any _____.

• sun

• salt

• oxygen

• carbon dioxide

Upwelling Step 1: ____________ blowing across the ocean surface push water away.

• Winds

• Sun

• Moon

• Tides

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Nutrients (food) = ____________

• Productivity

• Life

• Death

• Salinity

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___________ means that organisms are adding to the richness of the environment.

• productivity

• salinity

• biology

• atmosphere

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Upwellings...

• bring humans for fishing.

• draw in marine organisms for feeding.

• increase productivity.

• All of these.

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How does an upwelling promote growth of organisms?

• bring nutrients

• bring warmer water

• decrease oxygen levels

• decrease nutrients

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Where are the nutrients being carried to during an upwelling?

• the surface

• the bottom

• intertidal zone

• coral reefs

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Where is the majority of Earth’s freshwater located?

• groundwater

• oceans

• lakes

• ice

According to scientists, only 1% of the water on Earth is available for human use. Where is this available water most likely found?

• ocean

• groundwater

• rivers and lakes

• glaciers and ice caps

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