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• Created byOKTechMasters Sara Duncan
• Modified by Prof. Rodriguez

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Sediments
Salt
Atmospheric Circulation
Ocean Circulation
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Sediments for 100
Name the types of oozes on the seafloor.
What is?
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1. Calcareous Oozes (consist of gt30 CaCO3 shells
   eventually forms chalk or limestone)
2. Foraminferal or Globigerina Oozes (protozoans).
3. Pteropod Oozes (swimming snails rare)
4. Coccolith Oozes (algae)
5. Siliceous Oozes (consist of gt30 Sio2 Shells)
6. Diatom Oozes (algae)
7. Radiolarian Oozes (protozoans)

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Sediments 200
What force transport sediments long distances?
What is?
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Turbidites or turbidity currents
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Sediments 300
What is CCD?
What is?
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Calcium compensation Depth region below which
calcium dissolves
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Sediments 400
Name the most common sediment in the Pacific Ocean
What is?
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Clays - red
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Sediments for 500
How sediments are classified?
What is?
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1. Terrigenous or Detrital
2. Biogenous
3. Hydrogenous (Chemical)
4. Cosmogenic

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Atmospheric Circulation for 100
Weather system with a low pressure area in the
center, around which wind blows counter-clockwise
in the n. hemisphere and clockwise in the s.
hemisphere
What is?
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Cyclone
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Atmospheric Circulation 200
The atmospheric circulation cell coming from the
west.
What is?
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Westerlies
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Atmospheric Circulation 300
An unusual rise in sea level associated with a
tropical cyclone.
What is?
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A Storm Surge
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Atmospheric Circulation 400
The gaseous invisible form of water.
What is?
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Water Vapor
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Atmospheric Circulation for 500
The apparent deflection of a moving object from
its initial course.
What is?
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The Coriolis Effect
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Salt for 100
How are estuaries are classified?
What is?
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• According to salinity and their mixing as
• Stratified estuary
• Salt wedge
• Mixed estuary

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DAILY DOUBLE
DAILY DOUBLE
DAILY DOUBLE
DAILY DOUBLE
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Salt for 200
DAILY DOUBLE
Why is the ocean salty?
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Because of dissolved salts.
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Salt for 300
List the most abundant ion dissolved in the ocean.
What is?
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• Major Ions in Typical Seawater
• Ion parts per thousands (ppt.)
• Cl- 18.98
• SO4-2 2.649
• HCO3- 0.140
• Na 10.556
• Mg2 1.272
• Ca 0.400
• K 0.380

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Salt for 400
What is pH?
What is?
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Measure of the dissociation of water into ions
(H acidity, or OH- alkalinity).
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Salt for 500
What is life?
What is?
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Capacity of acquire and use energy.
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Ocean Circulation for 100
The current that extends up the east coast of N.
America.
What is?
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The Gulf Stream Current
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Ocean Circulation for 200
The current that starts in the Canary Islands and
heads west across the Atlantic.
What is?
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The Canary Current
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Ocean Circulation for 300
A continent (other than N. America) that has warm
ocean water on the east and cold ocean water on
the west.
What is?
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Australia
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Ocean Circulation for 400
A circular movement of water usually formed where
currents pass obstructions or between two
adjacent currents flowing in opposite directions.
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An Eddy
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Ocean Circulation for 500
The zone of rising air near the equator known for
sultry air variable breezes.
What is?
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The Doldrums
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