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2.07 Ocean Water Density Formative
By Jennifer LeVene
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Use the following video to answer questions 1 - 3.
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Question 2
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Question 3
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Use the following video to answer questions 4 - 6.
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Question 8
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How would you describe the water you would find in an ocean deep water current?
Question 9
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Where does the ocean deep water currents start?
Question 10
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How does the ocean deep water current keep moving? Explain the process.
Did the ice water or hot water sink to the bottom?
Ice water
Hot water
What did the hot water do?
Move from the hot water container to the cold water container
Stay in the hot water container
Moved to the bottom of both containers
What kind of current did the movement make?
Deep water current
Surface current
Convection Current
Which type of water sank to the bottom of the tank?
salt water
fresh water
What happened to the water on the right hand side of the tank when the divider was openned?
Didn't move
Moved to the left side
Sank to the bottom of the right side
Why did the salt water sink?
it was cold
it was hot
Density
it didn't sink
Think about combining the two experiments. Which type of water would sink?
Warm, fresh water
Warm, salt water
Cold, fresh water
Cold, salt water