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Cap. 2 Sci.

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

How do conditions vary in Earth's oceans?

a)

Depth

b)

Salinity

c)

Temperature

d)

Fish animals

2.

What are some features of the ocean floor?

a)

Continental shelves, and continental slopes

b)

Glowing fish animals, Seaweed

c)

Trenches, and abyssal plains

d)

Seamounts, and mid-ocean ridges

3.

What is salinity

a)

The total amount of desolved salts in a sample of water.

b)

Amount of salt in a body of water

c)

Amount of salt in an area of water

d)

The amount of salt in a water sample

4.

What is the definition of Sonar?

a)

SOnd NAvigation and Ranging

b)

System that uses sound waves to find objects on the sea floor

c)

SOme NAvigation Rigger

5.

What is the definition of a seamount?

a)

A beep narrow vally in the ocean floor.

b)

Valcanic mountain rising from the ocean floor, but dosn't reach past the surface of the ocean.

c)

The edge of a continent or gently sloaping land.

6.

True or False? A trench is a long deep vally on the ocean floor through which old ocean floor sinks back twards the mantle?

a)

True

b)

False

7.

How do waves form and change?

a)

Gravity and sun light

b)

Most waves form when winds blowing across the water's surface transmit their energy to the water.

c)

Ants

8.

How do waves affect the shore?

a)

Deposition, erosion, and weathering

b)

Erosion, and weathering

c)

Deposition, and erosion

d)

Weathering, and Deposition

9.

What three characteristics of waves?

a)

Wavelength

b)

Wavehight

c)

Frequency

d)

Hint* All of these are right

10.

What are the biggest types of waves?

a)

Tsnuami

b)

Rogue waves

c)

Small waves

11.

What are features of a beach?

a)

Rock walls

b)

Sand bars

c)

Docs

d)

Long shore drifts

e)

Some times groins

12.

What causes surface currents?

a)

Wind patterns

b)

Air around the water

c)

Moving water

13.

what causes deep currents?

a)

Hot water

b)

Tap water

c)

Cold water

d)

Temp. of water

14.

What are two major climate events

a)

El Nino

b)

La Nino

c)

El nina

d)

La nina

15.

How do currents effect the climate around them?

a)

Cold currents = Cold climate

b)

Warm current = Warm climate

c)

Hot current = Cold climate

d)

Hot current = Hot climate

e)

Cold current = Hot climate

16.

What is the definition of the Coriolis Effect?

a)

The effect of moving water

b)

The effect of the rotating Earth

c)

The effect of flooded cities

d)

The Effect of currents

e)

The effect of wind patterns

17.

What are the three ocean zones?

a)

Inter-tidal zone

b)

Blue-ocean zone

c)

Neritic zone

d)

Sail-boat zone

e)

Open-ocean zone

18.

How are ocean zones and organisms classified?

a)

Plankton

b)

Nekton

c)

Hint* All of these are right

d)

Benthos

19.

True or False? Near shore, wave height decreases and wavelength increases.

a)

True

b)

False

c)

Or

20.

What is a food web?

a)

The mapping system where it shows what animals eat other animals

b)

A spider web with crumbs in it

c)

A spider web eating food