What Is the Distance That a Wave Is in Contact with the Wind Called

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1.  What is the distance that a wave is in contact with the wind called?

2.  What is the saltiest sea?

3.  What is the length of a lunar day?

4.  What is the 23 hour and 56 minute day called more specifically?

5.  What class and phylum do the following belong to?

a.  Eels

b.  Sea urchin

c.  Nudibranch

d.  Corals

e.  Sea turtle

f.  nautilus

6.  What are the deep cuts into the continental shelf called?

7.  What is the mound of sand that separates the foreshore from the backshore?

8.  What is another name for the “spray zone”?

9.  What are semi-enclosed shallow coastal bodies of water that receive little or no fresh water flow?

10.  What is the process of chemicals like DDT building up as they move through the food chain?

11.  What type of breakers are characteristic of a beach with a gentle sand slope?

12.  What type of wave is known as a standing wave and is found in a basin where resonance builds it up?

13.  Square root of g x d is the equation for determining what?

14.  What is d in the equation mentioned in the previous question?

15.  What leads to the Coriolis effect?

16.  If a SW wind is found in the S. Hemsiphere, what direction would a floating object be moving?

17.  What cells are found at greater than 60degrees latitude?

18.  How many miles are in one time zone at the equator?

19.  How many degrees of longitude would be in an average time zone?

20.  What is the deepest point in the ocean?

21.  How many times faster does sound move in water than in air?

22.  What phylum does a barnacle belong to?

23.  What is an example of cephalochordate?

24.  What is an example of urochordata?

25.  What is the primary generator of surface currents?

26.  What is the area between the trade winds of the N. and S hemispheres called?

27.  In an attempt to maximize oxygen exchange or heat exchange, blood vessels run in opposite directions of the source that will provide the heat or oxygen. What is this called?

28.  What is the primary breathing adaptation in marine mammals?

29.  What protein is baleen made of?

30.  What percentage of the world’s marine fish catch comes from upwelling regions?

31.  Who proposed the theory of continental drift?

32.  What is the term for half the covering of a diatom or oyster?

33.  What is the term for a calcium carbonate depositing coral that has zooxanthellae living with it?

34.  What type of relationship is between coral and zooxanthellae?

35.  Why do the very rough littoral zones have more life than the open oceans with no breakers and tides?

36.  What does eustatic change describe changes in?

37.  What is an abnormally large wave called?

38.  What is the lowest point of a wave called?

39.  What does NOAA stand for?

40.  Why do ship wrecks at the bottom of the Black sea last for much longer than other seas?

41.  What is the dangerous substance in the Black sea found below 50 m?

42.  What is the very salty region in the N. Atlantic that has very little life called?

43.  Are the Aleutian islands a passive or active margin?

44.  What is the deepest water of the ocean called at over 3 miles deep?

45.  What are the vast flat areas of the ocean floor called?

46.  Which is deeper the abyssopelagic or bathypelagic

47.  What is the area 50-1000m deep that has light, but not enough for photosynthesis?

Answers

1.  fetch

2.  Dead sea: bacteria only and never turns over as very dense salty water stays on the bottom.

3.  24 hours and 50 minutes

4.  sidereal day

5.  answers below

a.  osteichthyes: bony fish chordate

b.  echinoidea echinodermata

c.  gastropoda: sea slug mollusca

d.  anthozoa cnidaria

e.  reptilian chordate

f.  cephalopoda: with octopus mollusca

6.  submarine canyons

7.  berm

8.  supralittoral zone

9.  lagoons

10.  biomagnification

11.  spilling breakers

12.  seiche wave

13.  shallow water wave speed

14.  depth

15.  spinning of the earth

16.  to the NW (90 left in S. Hemsiphere)

17.  polar cells

18.  (24000 miles/ 24 time zones)

19.  15 degrees (360/24 time zones)

20.  Challenger Deep at the bottom of the Mariana trench

21.  5X (3500 miles per hour)

22.  arthropoda

23.  lancets

24.  tunicates or sea squirts

25.  wind

26.  ITCZ (intertropical convergence zone)

27.  Countercurrent exchange

28.  Blowhole

29.  Keratin

30.  50%

31.  Alfred Wegener

32.  Valves

33.  Hermatypic

34.  Symbiotic: mutualism

35.  More nutrients

36.  Sea level

37.  Rogue wave

38.  Wave trough

39.  National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

40.  No life exists in the bottom of the black sea

41.  Hydrogen sulfide

42.  Sargasso Sea

43.  Active margin (convergent plates)

44.  Hadal zone

45.  Abyssal plains

46.  Abyssopelagic zone

47.  Disphotic zone