1. What Are the 2 Main Types of Currents?

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REVIEW GUIDE: OCEANS

Chapter 16

1. What are the 2 main types of currents?

2. Where do Surface currents get their energy?

3. What causes vertical deep water currents?

4. Warm water moves towards the ______from the ______.

5. What is the Coriolis Effect?

6. What 2 factors affect ocean water density?

7. What processes decrease salinity?

8. What processes increase salinity?

9. Explain what happens when surface water reaches the poles.

10. Where do waves get their energy from?

11. What 3 factors affect the height, length, and period of a wave?

12. What is the distance between 2 consecutive wave crests?

13. In what direction does energy move in a wave?

14. In what direction does the actual water particles move in a wave?

15. What is the smallest daily tidal range called?

16. What is the largest daily tidal range called?

17. What is the tidal cycle has 1 high and 1 low tide?

18. What is the tidal cycle that has 2 highs and 2 lows in the same day at different heights?

19. What tidal cycle has 2 highs and 2 lows of the same heights in the same day?

20. What is longshore current?

21. What are 3 erosional features?

22. What are 3 depositional features?

23. What are 3 things people can do to prevent coastal erosion?

24. What is wave refraction?

25. What unit do we use when expressing ocean salinity?

26. What are 2 sources of sea salt?

27. What is the most abundant salt in the ocean?

28. What are the 3 categories of marine organisms? Define them?

29. What are the 3 ways we can divide the ocean into layers?

30. What are 3 ways that the ocean can be divided based on light?

31. What are 3 ways that classes can be divided based on distance from shore?

32. What are 3 ways that the ocean can be classified based on depth?

33. What is photosynthesis?

34. What is a hydrothermal vent?

35. What is the difference between a food web and a food chain?

36. Why is it better to be part of a food web?