Escapes Unit 5 Vocab

Question 1

Negative Feedback

Answer 1

when the response is in the opposite direction of the input

Question 2

Positive Feedback

Answer 2

when the response is the same direction of as the input

Question 3

Coriolis effect

Answer 3

apparent deflection of currents and winds across earth

Question 4

Deflection

Answer 4

To alter from intended path

Question 5

Sea Breeze

Answer 5

During the day; the localized wind blowing from the ocean to the land

Question 6

Land Breeze

Answer 6

During the night; the localized wind blowing from the land to the ocean

Question 7

Specific Heat Capacity

Answer 7

how much energy is needed to raise one gram of a substance one degree

Question 8

Macronutrients

Answer 8

large molecules of life CHNOPS (sometime K)

Question 9

Micronutrients

Answer 9

smaller molecules of life iron, copper

Question 10

Summer solstice

Answer 10

June 21 when the northern hemisphere is tilted toward the sun and the solar maximum and
direct sunlight reach the tropic of Cancer

Question 11

Winter solstice

Answer 11

December 21 when the northern hemisphere is tilted away from the sun and solar maximum
and direct sunlight reach the tropic of Capricorn

Question 12

Equinox

Answer 12

March 20-23 and September 20-23 when solar maxim hits directly at the equator giving every location
on Earth 12 hours of sunlight and 12 hours of darkness

Question 13

Solar noon

Answer 13

when the sun reaches its highest point in the sky

Question 14

Currents

Answer 14

ocean circulation driven by the wind and density

Question 15

Salinity

Answer 15

salt content of a body of water

Question 16

Biologic Oxygen Demand

Answer 16

amount of dissolved oxygen needed to sustain organisms in a body of water

Question 17

Ocean acidification

Answer 17

reduction in the pH of the ocean caused primarily by uptake of
carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

Question 18

Freshwater

Answer 18

only 3% of surface water contains no salt, and most of it is contained in ice caps

Question 19

Brackish

Answer 19

water salinity between Saline and Fresh

Question 20

Saline

Answer 20

Salt water and the designation of the world’s oceans

Question 21

Brine

Answer 21

Saltiest of water like the Dead Sea and the Great Salt Lake

Question 22

Biomagnification

Answer 22

accumulation of certain chemicals in living organisms to a higher concentration

Question 23

Bioaccumulation

Answer 23

the net accumulation of a contaminant in or on an organism from water, air, and
diet

Question 24

PCB’s

Answer 24

group of human-made chemicals that are absorbed through fat ingestion

Question 25

Hypoxia

Answer 25

lack of oxygen in waters