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Introduction, physical properties and conservation Flashcards

1
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What is functional Biology?

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How an organism carries out basic functions

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What is Ecology?

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Factors involved in distribution/abundance of organisms

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Factors involved in distribution/abundance of organismsWhat are factors

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Ecology

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What is the study of How an organism carries out basic functions

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Functional Biology

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What is Biodiversity

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Flora and fauna should be diverse to recover from moderate disturbances

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How do we study the scientific method?

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  1. State the question
  2. Collection information
  3. Form a hypothesis
  4. Test hypothesis
  5. Record and study data
  6. Draw a conclusion
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What Nektons?

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actively swimming aquatic organisms in a body of water

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What are actively swimming aquatic organisms in a body of water called?

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Nektons

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What are Benthos?

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organisms that live on, in, or near the bottom of the ocean.

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What are organisms that live on, in, or near the bottom of the ocean called?

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Benthos

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What is intertidal?

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The area where the ocean meets the land between high and low tides.

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What is the area where the ocean meets the land between high and low tides.

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Intertidal

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What is subtidal?

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the area where the seabed is below the lowest tide.

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What is the area where the seabed is below the lowest tide

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Subtidal

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What is Nertic?

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the shallow part of the ocean located between the intertidal zone and the oceanic zone

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What is the shallow part of the ocean located between the intertidal zone and the oceanic zone?

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Nertic Zone

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What is pelagic?

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of, relating to, or living or occurring in the open sea

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18
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How deep is the epipelagic zone?

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0-200m deep

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19
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How deep is the mesopelagic zone?

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200-1000m deep

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How deep is the Bathyal zone?

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1000-4000m deep

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21
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How deep is the Abysall zone?

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4000-6000m deep

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22
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How deep is the hadal zone?

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more than 6000m deep

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23
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How much of Earth’s oceans cover the planet?

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How much does the Southern Hemisphere cover?

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How much does the Northern Hemisphere cover?

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How much of the ocean is 2000m deep?

27
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How deep is the mariana’s Trench

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more than 11,000m deep

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What is the Oceanic crust?

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Crust is formed at ridges, moved laterally, and destroyed by subduction, which forms trenches

29
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What is Subduction?

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Where one edge of one lithospheric plate is forced below the edge of another.

30
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What are trenches?

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any long, narrow, steep-sided depression in the ocean bottom

31
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What is biologically the richest part of the ocean?

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The continential Shelf

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Wha is the continential Shelf?

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the edge of a continent that lies under the ocean

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What is the continential Slope?

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Transition between the gently descending continential shelf and the deep ocean floor .

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What is the shelf break?

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marks the limit of the continental shelf and the beginning of the continental slope

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What are submarine canyons?

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a steep-sided valley cut into the seabed of the continental slope, often terminating on the deep sea floor in a fan shaped wedge of sediment

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What is the continential Rise?

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Base of continental slope is covered by an apron of accumulated sediment

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What is an active continential margin?

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Edges of diverging plates

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What is a passive continential margin?

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Edges of converging plates

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What is the oceanic ridge?

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Mountainous chain of young basaltic rock at the active spreading center of an ocean

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What are fracture areas?

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inactive faults

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What are hydrotheromal vents?

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fissure on the seabed from which geothermally heated water discharges

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What are abyssal plains?

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Flat featureless expanses of sediment covered ocean floor

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What are abyssal hills?

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Small sediment covered extinct volcanoes of once molten rock
Less than 200 m (650ft) high

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What are seamounts?

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Circular or elliptical (more then 1km (06 miles) high) with steep slope of 20 to 25 degrees

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What are Guyots?

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Flat topped seamounts
Eroded by wave action from the surface

46
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What are are Island Arcs?

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Curving chains of volcanoes and seamounts
Usually found parallel to concave edges of trenches

47
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What is the temperature range of the ocean?

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(-1.9 to 40 °C) less than terrestrial range (-68.5 to 58 °C)

48
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How cold is the deep ocean?

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Deep ocean is cold (2 to 4 °C)

49
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What is a verdical temperature gradient

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The mean temperature in the occupied zone and the mean temperature in the zone above the occupied zone called the upper zone and a dimensionless temperature gradient

50
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Why is the ocean salty?

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Geological rocks and hydrothermal vents

51
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What is salinity?

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g of dissolved salts per 1000 g of seawater; units are o/oo or ppt or practical salinity unit

52
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What increases salinity?

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evaporation, sea-ice formation

53
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What decreases salinity?

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precipitation, river runoff

54
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What is the salinity of the open ocean?

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32 to 38 o/oo

55
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What is corolis forces?

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the rotation of the earth rotates current flow to the right in the N hemisphere, and to the left in S hemisphere

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