Oceanography

By Brenda Owens

Picture from http://oceanworld.tamu.edu/students/coral/

1. Identify the types of plate boundaries at A,B, & C

A

BC

http://www.oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/05galapagos/background/mission_intro/media/GSC3D_600.html

2. Identify these features of shoreline erosion

A

B

C

Picture adapted from http://www.fs.fed.us/r6/rogue-siskiyou/recreation/geology/coastal.shtml

3. What term is given to this picture?

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/Paleoclimatology_Evidence/paleoclimatology_evidence_2.html

4. What does the blank space represent?

Picture from http://www.seagrant.umn.edu/rip/

5. What movement do the white boxes in the picture represent?

Picture was adapted from http://www.geology.ucdavis.edu/~gel150b/sp05_billen/lec21_fig2.html

B

A

6. Identify the types of plate boundaries at A, B and C.

A

B

C

http://facweb.bhc.edu/academics/science/harwoodr/GEOL101/labs/PlateTectonics3/index.htm

7.Identify the types of coral reef formations.

A B

C

8. Identify A & B

A

B

9. Identify A, B, C, D, E, F, & G.

A B C

http://www.msstate.edu/dept/geosciences/CT/TIG/WEBSITES/RESEARCH/Christine_Oxenford/index.html

10. Identify these layers of the ocean according to temperature.

11. Calculate the Dissolved Oxygen content of the

water if Salinity is 35 0/00 and Temp. is 23oC.

12. Name at least 5 processes that change the salinity of water.

http://www.k12.de.us/warner/hydrometer.htm

13.Label A, B, C, & D.

A

B

C

D

http://www.onr.navy.mil/Focus/ocean/motion/waves1.htm

14. What atmospheric conditions are formed at A & B?

A B

15. Identify the process here and give its significance.

http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/eln/upw.rxml

16. Identify the conditions of each picture.

A B

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Ni%C3%B1a

17. Identify the warm and cold currents at A, B, C, D, & E.

AB

C

ED

http://www.physicalgeography.net/fundamentals/8q_1.html

18.Where do Hurricanes form?

http://www.stormsurf.com/page2/tutorials/hurricane.shtml

19. What kind of wave period would surfers prefer and why ?

http://www.backpackingqueensland.com.au/v2/site/goldcoastandhinterland.php

20.What is this instrument is and what is it used for?

http://www.uscg.mil/lantarea/iip/Photo_Gallery/Oceanographic_Equipment_1.shtml

21.What is this instrument and what does it do?

http://www.fishfarmsupply.ca/sampleequip.htm

22. Where do ocean salts come from?

http://www.klbschool.org.uk/exchanges/expeditions/argentina_05/rock%20salt.JPG

23.What causes the currents in the Northern and Southern Hemisphere to be opposite?

Picture modified from http://www.physicalgeography.net/fundamentals/8q_1.html

24. What kind of tides are represented in the picture?

http://home.hiwaay.net/~krcool/Astro/moon/moontides/

25. How do particles in a wave move?

http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/fractals/natural/waves.jpg by J. C. Sprott

ReferencesQ. 7 http://www.answers.com/topic/atoll

Q. 7 http://encarta.msn.com/media_461529282_761572186_1_1/Moor%C3%A9a_Fringing_Reef.html

Q. 10 http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/wwhlpr/thermocline.rxml

Q. 7 http://www.great-barrier-reef.net/Q.8http://www.cascadia.ctc.edu/facultyweb/instructors/jvanleer/astro%20sum01/Hyrothremal%20Vent%20Final/hydrothermal_vents.htm