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Question 1

What is phytoplankton?

Answer 1

plants of the sea
produce 50% of Earth’s oxygen

Question 2

What is zoo plankton?

Answer 2

Animal drifters
Eat phytoplankton
export carbon to deep ocean

Question 3

What is a boilogical pump

Answer 3

processes where inorganic carbon is fixed into organic matter via photosynthesis and then sequestered away from the atmosphere generally by transport into the deep ocean.

Question 4

What is the Coroliseffect?

Answer 4

circulating air is deflected toward the right in the Northern Hemisphere and toward the left in the Southern Hemisphere.

Question 5

What is an Elkman spiral?

Answer 5

When surface water molecules move by the force of the wind, they, in turn, drag deeper layers of water molecules below them.

Question 6

What is primary production?

Answer 6

storage of energy through the formation of organic matter from inorganic compounds

Question 7

What is Estuarine Circulation?

Answer 7

Residual flow pattern in an estuary induced by the density difference between seawater and river water

Question 8

What are Diatoms?

Answer 8

Unicellular organisms of phytoplankton composed of silica

Question 9

What is Elnino

Answer 9

During normal conditions in the Pacific ocean,trade windsblow west along the equator, taking warm water from South America towards Asia.

Question 10

What is the Redfield ratio

Answer 10

the consistent atomic ratio of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus found in marine phytoplankton and throughout the deep oceansconstant 106:16:1