Two or more atoms held together by shared electrons, and is the smallest form of substance.

(a)  

This is the exchange in evaporation-condensation cycle and it makes life possible on Earth.

(a)  

In this global thermostatic effect, oceans moderate temperature changes from day to night and during different seasons

(a)  

In this global thermostatic effect, the land areas have greater range of temperature from day to night and during different seasons.

(a)  

Density of water ______ as temperature ______. {Hint Terms: Increases, Decreases}
(a, b)

(a)  

The shrinkage of most substances caused by cold temperatures

(a)  

The seawater is a solution that is about ___% of water, and ___% of dissolved salts.

(a, b)

(a)  

Total salt content of sea water is 3.5%, which is about in (a)   ppt?

This is the most abundant salt in sea water.

(a)  

The measure of amount of dissolved salts in seawater that is expressed as grams of salt per kilogram water, or parts per thousands (ppt).

(a)  

Where and what area does 32 or 33 parts-per-thousands occur?

(a)  

The lowest salinities occur in where(Hint: it passes through the oceans)?

(a)  

Because of the abundance of precipitation, places here are lower in salinity.

(a)  

Because of the abundance of precipitation, places here are lower in salinity.

(a)  

Light penetrates only the upper meters of seawater?

(a)  

Ocean water temperature (a)   significantly with depth. {Hint: Increases, Decreases}

It plots changing water temperatures with depth.

(a)  

This ocean layer is the first layer is a relatively warm, sunlit, surface layer some 100m thick.

(a)  

This transitional layer is characterized by rapidly decreasing temperatures with depth.

(a)  

This ocean layer is cold and dark with temperatures near freezing.

(a)  

Ocean water properties like salinity, density and temperature plays crucial role in how currents are formed.

(a)  

This early technique of determining salinity weighs water and evaporated salts. Though not accurate because some salts can evaporate with water.

(a)  

It measures water's electrical conductivity. More dissolved substances increase conductivity.

(a)  

Open-oceans salinity is in range of (a, b)%

(a)  

The dead sea is an example of this where it has a condition of high evaporation.

(a)  

It is the influx of freshwater from rivers or rain that lowers salinity.

(a)  

It is the processes here in Earth that affects seawater salinity and recycles water among ocean, atmosphere, and continents. It is the water in continual motion between water reservoirs.

(a)  

The average length of time a substance remains dissolved in seawater.

(a)  

The condition of verage amounts of various elements remains constant

(a)  

It releases an Hydrogen ion (H+) when dissolved in water.

(a)  

It releases a Hydroxide ion (OH-) in water.

(a)  

In the pH scale, pure water is what?

(a)  

It is the measurement of hydrogen ion concentration

(a)  

• It separates ocean layers of different salinity.

• It separates ocean layers of different salinity.

The abrupt change of density with depth.

(a)  

The abrupt change of temperature with depth.

(a)  

In the pH scale, seawater is slightly what, and has a scale of?

(a, b)

(a)  

In a high latitude oceans, no temperature variation in water column is this.

(a)  

In a high latitude oceans, no density variation in water column is this.

(a)  

The most common process where water is boiled and condensed. In this type of desalinization, one way is to use solar in arid climates.

(a)  

It is the electrode-containing freshwater where membrane between fresh and salt water tanks desalinate.

(a)  

The ocean water pH (a)   with depth? {Hint: Increase, Decrease}

It keeps the ocean from becoming too acidic or too basic.

(a)