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WorksheetsCap. 2 Sci.
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
How do conditions vary in Earth's oceans?
Depth
Salinity
Temperature
Fish animals
What are some features of the ocean floor?
Continental shelves, and continental slopes
Glowing fish animals, Seaweed
Trenches, and abyssal plains
Seamounts, and mid-ocean ridges
What is salinity
The total amount of desolved salts in a sample of water.
Amount of salt in a body of water
Amount of salt in an area of water
The amount of salt in a water sample
What is the definition of Sonar?
SOnd NAvigation and Ranging
System that uses sound waves to find objects on the sea floor
SOme NAvigation Rigger
What is the definition of a seamount?
A beep narrow vally in the ocean floor.
Valcanic mountain rising from the ocean floor, but dosn't reach past the surface of the ocean.
The edge of a continent or gently sloaping land.
True or False? A trench is a long deep vally on the ocean floor through which old ocean floor sinks back twards the mantle?
True
False
How do waves form and change?
Gravity and sun light
Most waves form when winds blowing across the water's surface transmit their energy to the water.
Ants
How do waves affect the shore?
Deposition, erosion, and weathering
Erosion, and weathering
Deposition, and erosion
Weathering, and Deposition
What three characteristics of waves?
Wavelength
Wavehight
Frequency
Hint* All of these are right
What are the biggest types of waves?
Tsnuami
Rogue waves
Small waves
What are features of a beach?
Rock walls
Sand bars
Docs
Long shore drifts
Some times groins
What causes surface currents?
Wind patterns
Air around the water
Moving water
what causes deep currents?
Hot water
Tap water
Cold water
Temp. of water
What are two major climate events
El Nino
La Nino
El nina
La nina
How do currents effect the climate around them?
Cold currents = Cold climate
Warm current = Warm climate
Hot current = Cold climate
Hot current = Hot climate
Cold current = Hot climate
What is the definition of the Coriolis Effect?
The effect of moving water
The effect of the rotating Earth
The effect of flooded cities
The Effect of currents
The effect of wind patterns
What are the three ocean zones?
Inter-tidal zone
Blue-ocean zone
Neritic zone
Sail-boat zone
Open-ocean zone
How are ocean zones and organisms classified?
Plankton
Nekton
Hint* All of these are right
Benthos
True or False? Near shore, wave height decreases and wavelength increases.
True
False
Or
What is a food web?
The mapping system where it shows what animals eat other animals
A spider web with crumbs in it
A spider web eating food
