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• Created byOKTechMasters Sara Duncan
• Modified by Prof. Rodriguez

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Sediments
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Ocean
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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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Beach for 100
List a part of general beach profile.
What is?
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1. The backshore
2. Sand dunes
3. The berm
4. The foreshore
5. The offshore

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Beach 200
How oceanographers usually classify coasts by?
What is?
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Active And Passive
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Beach 300
List a major problem facing many beaches along
the U.S. east and west coasts today.
What is?
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Erosion
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Beach 400
List the major human activities that have
contributed to shoreline erosion.
What is?
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1. Construction of dams reduces river sediment
   inflows.
2. Construction of jetties, breakwaters, etc.
3. Extraction of sediments from rivers alters the
   sediment inflows.
4. Extraction of fossil fuels and water causes
   subsidence.

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Beach for 500
What is unique about the West coast of the U.S.
What is?
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Active shoreline, edge of continental plate
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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 for 100
What is a province in the ocean?
What is?
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A province is an area where we expect to find
similar plants and animals, depending on other
environmental factors (temperature, current,
salinity, nutrient supply)
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Ocean for 200
List the most important nutrients in the ocean.
What is?
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Nutrients for plants are all inorganic and
include nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium,
silicate, calcium.
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Ocean for 300
What is osmosis and diffusion.
What is?
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The process where by water moves across the
membrane but salt doesnt is called
osmosis. Diffusion movement of water from high
concentration to low concentration.
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Ocean for 400
List the physical factors that affect life in the
ocean and its importance to physical
characteristics of the water
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1. Temperature
2. Salinity
3. Amount of light
4. Nutrient supply
5. Vigor of the currents
6. Water depth

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Ocean for 500
Define a trophic levels in the ocean.
What is?
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Refers to whom feed from whom, and how energy
moves through a food chain.
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