Upwelling Estuaries Ocean Zones Salty Oceans Hydrothermal Vents and Cold Seeps
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What is the benefit of the process of upwelling?
Large amounts of dissolved nutrients are brought to the ocean's surface.
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What are estuaries?
They are among the most productive types of ecosystems.
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What is the deeper you go in the ocean?
Both Light and life decrease.
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What is how the ocean becomes salty?
Materials dissolved from sediments deposited on the ocean floor
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What is a hydrothermal vent?
Hydrothermal water seeping from underground into
the ocean.
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What is a diagram of the process of upwelling?
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What explains why estuaries are called the nursery of the sea?
Estuaries are rich in nutrients and contain roots and grasses that provide shelter for young animals.
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What is the intertidal zone.
What zone includes crabs and clams burrowing in the sand?
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What is how the ocean becomes salty?
Solid and gaseous ejections from volcanoes
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What is a cold seep?
Cold water seeping from underground into the ocean.
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What is Upwelling?
Areas where cold, nutrient rich waters are brought to the surface due to winds blowing offshore are known as_________
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What is an estuary or brackish water?
Area where salt and fresh water mix
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What is the sunlit top layer of the ocean beyond the continental shelves.
Open ocean.
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What is the salinity of the Ocean?
Salinity of seawater is 35 parts per thousand.
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What is animals found near a hydrothermal vent?
Tube Worms
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What is a benefit of upwelling?
More aquatic life
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What is filtered by an estuary?
Trapped nutrients and sediments
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What is the deepest part of the ocean.
Trenches
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What is how salinity changes in value?
-Salinity in ocean waters is increased by evaporation or by freezing of sea ice
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What is where hydrothermal vents may be found?
Mid- Atlantic Ridge
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What are nutrients moving due to upwelling?
It moves from deep, colder areas to warm, shallow areas.
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What are oysters, sea grass, or other biological filter?
Decrease the amount of pollution in an estuary?
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What is the fish found in the abyss or trench zones?
Angler Fish.
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What is how salinity changes in value?
-Salinity in ocean waters is increased by evaporation or by freezing of sea ice
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Where hydrothermal vents and cold seeps can be found?
Benthic Zone






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