Intro to Oceans Challenge
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12th Grade
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Stephanie Vivas
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14 Slides • 8 Questions
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Intro to Oceans Challenge
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Multiple Choice
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The Blue Planet!
71% of Earth's surface is covered in ocean, making marine environments the largest biomes on our planet!
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Multiple Choice
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The majority of Earth's water is found in the oceans.
Only about 2.5% of the water supply is fresh water (necessary for our survival too!)
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Multiple Choice
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The Water Cycle
Evaporation, condensation, and precipitation cycle water through hydrosphere
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World's Largest Carbon Sink
Oceans absorb excess CO2 from the atmosphere
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Coastal Climate Moderator
Water is great at resisting temperature changes due to high specific heat of water.
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Global Weather Impacts
#HurricaneIsaias #Thanks2020
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Multiple Choice
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Extraplanetary influences!
The gravitational pull of the moon "pulls" the water towards it = tides. When the moon and sun align, that produces the highest tides!
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Multiple Choice
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Horizontal Movement
This movement is influenced by surface winds and Earth's rotation
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Vertical Movement
This movement is influenced by temperature and salinity.
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Multiple Choice
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The Mid-Atlantic Ridge
Sometimes this is described as the baseball seam of the Earth!
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Multiple Choice
Which of the following open ocean zones (pelagic) are ordered from most shallow to most deep?
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Ocean Zones
Epipelagic
Mesopelagic
Bathypelagic
Abyssalpelagic
Hadalpelagic
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Multiple Choice
The average pH of the ocean is...
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Ocean water is slightly basic
Minerals enter from rivers & decomposing organic matter
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