Marine Science Test 2 Study Guide
Marine Science Test 2 Study Guide
Seawater Chemistry:
1. What are three processes in the hydrologic cycle?
2. The vast majority of Earth’s water is fresh or saline?
3. Most of Earth’s freshwater is stored in __________
4. What is salinity?
5. What two forces add salts to the oceans?
6. What forces remove salts from the oceans?
7. What processes lower salinity?
8. What processes raise salinity?
9. What is the average pH of seawater?
Seawater Chemistry:
1. What are three processes in the hydrologic cycle?
2. The vast majority of Earth’s water is fresh or saline?
3. Most of Earth’s freshwater is stored in __________
4. What is salinity?
5. What two forces add salts to the oceans?
6. What forces remove salts from the oceans?
7. What processes lower salinity?
8. What processes raise salinity?
9. What is the average pH of seawater?
Atmosphere Circulation:
10. What is an atmosphere?
11. What is the Greenhouse effect?
12. What is the Coriolis effect?
13. What is the difference between weather and climate?
14. What factors can cause long-term climate change?
15. What is a cyclone?
16. What aspects of a cyclone cause serious damage?
Atmosphere Circulation:
10. What is an atmosphere?
11. What is the Greenhouse effect?
12. What is the Coriolis effect?
13. What is the difference between weather and climate?
14. What factors can cause long-term climate change?
15. What is a cyclone?
16. What aspects of a cyclone cause serious damage?
Ocean Circulation:
17. Why is ocean circulation important?
18. What direction and where do the westerlies blow? The trade winds?
19. What four currents make up the North Atlantic gyre?
20. What characteristics does a western boundary current have? An
eastern boundary current?
21. What is thermohaline circulation?
22. What is upwelling and what are its effects?
23. What is the Southern Oscillation?
24. What happens to the currents in the Pacific during an ENSO event?
25. How can an ENSO event cause both droughts and deluges?
26. What is La Niña?
Ocean Circulation:
17. Why is ocean circulation important?
18. What direction and where do the westerlies blow? The trade winds?
19. What four currents make up the North Atlantic gyre?
20. What characteristics does a western boundary current have? An
eastern boundary current?
21. What is thermohaline circulation?
22. What is upwelling and what are its effects?
23. What is the Southern Oscillation?
24. What happens to the currents in the Pacific during an ENSO event?
25. How can an ENSO event cause both droughts and deluges?
26. What is La Niña?
Waves & Tides:
27. What is a wave?
28. What causes ocean waves?
29. What are the parts of a wave?
30. How do water molecules move in a wave?
31. Why do waves break?
32. What is a tide?
33. What causes Earth’s tides?
34. What are spring and neap tides and when do they occur?
Waves & Tides:
27. What is a wave?
28. What causes ocean waves?
29. What are the parts of a wave?
30. How do water molecules move in a wave?
31. Why do waves break?
32. What is a tide?
33. What causes Earth’s tides?
34. What are spring and neap tides and when do they occur?