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AICE Marine - Understanding Solubility
If you can successfully answer these questions then you will be able to pass the quiz on
Monday.
Understanding the Basics
How does kinetic energy from solutes
move in….
- High temperatures
- Low temperatures
What does solubility mean?
How does temperature affect
solubility?
Understanding Salinity
What occurs to solutes such as NaCl
once it is stirred in water?
- Explain the chemistry
What occurs to those solutes once
temperature is involved?
How does temperature affect salinity
levels? How do you know?
How does precipitation, runoff, and
evaporation affect salinity levels?
Factors Affecting Solubility
Why are gases in the atmosphere in
equilibrium with gases in the
seawater?
What determines gas solubility when
speaking about the gas itself?
How does temperature affect solubility
of gases?
Describe atmospheric pressure and
describe how it affects solubility.
Why do you find more gases in cold
water than you do in warmer waters?
Explain what happens to kinetic
energy and how that plays a role in
solubility.
How does depthness levels affect
solubility of gases.
How does salinity affect gas levels?
There are less gases present in higher
temperatures, then what explains the
high levels of DO in the surface layer.
What occurs to DO at the oxygen
minimum layer? Why does this occur?
After the oxygen minimum layer DO
increases. What are the factors that
cause DO to rise?
Explain what happens to the kinetic
energy in gas molecules in the surface
layer as opposed to kinetic energy
deeper in the ocean.
Thinking about kinetic energy and
about ion movements now explain
why the gases are increasing with
deepness levels.