Semester 1 Final - 2021

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Unit 1: Water and Water Cycle
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Sublimation
The process of water changing from water vapor into tiny droplets to form clouds.
Condensation
The process of liquid water changing into water vapor.
Evaporation
The process of ice evaporating into gas.
Precipitation
The process where water droplets are too heavy to stay in clouds and fall as rain, sleet, hail or snow.
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Infiltration
The process of water soaking into the soil and in between rock layers.
Groundwater
The process where water flows/runs downhill from land surfaces into rivers and streams and then back to the ocean/
Floodplain
The water stored beneath the surface of the earth.
Surface Runoff
Floodplain is an area around a waterway that periodically floods with too much water.
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Erosion
Impermeable/impervious surfaces are solid surfaces that don't allow water to penetrate, forcing it to run off. Ex. Concrete
Impermeable
Allows water to sink into the soil to filter out pollutants and recharge the water table adding to the groundwater. Ex. Soil
Permeable
The washing away of material from the bed or outsides curves of the river or stream.
Deposition
The depositing of materials at the inside curve of a river or stream.
Unit 2: History of Oceanography
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Biological Oceanography
The study of the chemical composition of seawater and its interaction with the atmosphere and the sea floor.
Geological Oceanography
The study of how marine organisms develop, relate to one another, adapt to their environment, and interact with it.​
Physical Oceanography
The study of the ocean-atmosphere relationship that influences weather and climate, transmission of light and sound through water, and the ocean's interactions with its boundaries at the sea floor and the coast..
Chemical Oceanography
Study of  the ocean floor
and the processes that form its mountains, canyons, and valleys.
Unit 2: Plate Tectonics and Geological Features
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Continental Drift Theory
The hypothesis that the Earth's continents have moved over geologic time relative to each other.
Continental Crust
A supercontinent that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras.
Oceanic Crust
The part of the earth's crust which underlies the ocean basins. Relatively thin and dense.
Seafloor spreading
The outermost layer of Earth's lithosphere that makes up the planet's continents and continental shelves.
Pangaea
The formation of new areas of oceanic crust, which occurs through the upwelling of magma at midocean ridges and its subsequent outward movement on either side.
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Transform Boundary
The sideways and downward movement of the edge of a plate of the earth's crust into the mantle beneath another plate.
Divergent Boundary
Where plates move towards each other.
Convergent boundary
Where plates are moving away from each other.
Subduction
Where plates are slding past each other.
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Trench
An underwater mountain range
Continental Shelf
The shallow, submerged edge of the continent.
Abyssal plain
Long but narrow topographic depressions of the sea floor. They are also the deepest parts of the ocean floor.
Mid Ocean Ridge
Broad flat areas of sediment-covered ocean floor found between the continental margins and the mid-ocean ridges
Unit 3: Aquatic Life Zones
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Benthic Zone
The bottom portion of the ocean.
Photic Zone
The depth of the water where there is enough sunlight for photosynthesis to occur.
Aphotic Zone
The depth of the water where there is little or no sunlight.
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Sublittoral
Part of the ocean floor from low tide to
200m down the edge of the continental
shelf; permanently submerged under water.
Littoral
Part of the ocean floor between high and
low tide. Sometimes submerged.
Supralittoral
Past of the ocean floor above the high tide
zone that is regularly splashed, but not
submerged by ocean water.
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Lotic
Bodies of flowing water such as rivers and streams.
Lentic
Bodies of standing water such as lakes, ponds, and wetlands.
Brackish
Slightly salty, as is the mixture of river water and seawater in estuaries.
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Limnetic
Open water too deep for rooted plants but has light.
Littoral
Shallow area with rooted plants and waves – light through to bottom
Profundal
Deep part of lake with no light
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Surface tension
The surface film or "Skin" of a liquid caused by the attraction of the particles in the surface layer.
Cohesion
Water molecules are attracted to water molecules
Adhesion
Water molecules are attracted to other substances.
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Salinity
A reduction in the pH of the ocean over an extended period time, caused primarily by uptake of carbon dioxide
Ocean Acidification
The amount of free oxygen that is present in water.
Dissolved oxygen
The saltiness or amount of salt dissolved in a body of water
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Density
How much space an object or substance takes up (its volume) in relation to the amount of matter in that object or substance (its mass).
Buoyancy
The ability or tendency to float in water or air or some other fluid.
Viscosity
A liquid's resistance to flow due to internal friction.