Oceans Video Questions
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1. What is the difference between a sea and an ocean?
2. What does table salt have to do with the ocean?
3. What is salinity?
4. Why do things float better in salt water than in fresh water?
5. How does the sun influence the oceans?
6. List the temperature zones of the ocean and their characteristics.
7. What influences the movement of ocean water?
8. What are tides, waves and currents? How are they similar and how are they different?
9. What is an upwelling and what causes it?
10. Describe the movement of a wave in the ocean.
11. How are tides influenced by the moon?
12. What are tsunamis? Why is it techincally incorrect to say that tsunamis are tidal waves?
13. Describe some physical features of the ocean floor.
14. What are the continental shelf, continental slope and abyssal plain?