Lessons
Ocean Water Chemistry
Currents and Climates
Chapter 13 - Ocean Motions
Lesson 3, Ocean Water Chemistry
How many grams of salt in one kilogram of ocean water?
What are the main elements in ocean water?
Where is salinity the highest?
Where is salinity the lowest?
What are the effects of salinity and temperature?
What are the effects of salinity and density?
What are the effects of evaporation and salinity?
How is oxygen essential to ocean water?
How is carbon dioxide essential to ocean water?
What is the effect of temperature on ocean depth?
Why are submersibles needed to explore the ocean?
Which zone allows for photosynthesis?
Lesson 4, Currents and Climate
What are currents?
How are surface currents driven?
What is the Coriolis effect?
What is the most powerful surface current in the North Atlantic Ocean?
What is climate?
How do surface currents affect climate?
What is El Niño?
What effect does El Niño have on climate?
How do deep currents affect climate?
How does upwelling occur?
