Oceans and Currents

Salinity is

• A type of plankton

• The difference in temperature between surface and deep water

• The amount of salt in sea water

• A type of surface current

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Plankton are

• a type of fish

• any organisms that cannot swim against a current

• any organism that is found at the base of the food chain

• any microscopic organism

The Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia is an example of

• Tides

• Gyres

• Deep Water Currents

• Thermohaline Circulation

What two factors influence tides?

• Salinity and Moon

• Sun and Moon

• Moon and Wind

• Sun and Wind

These are ocean currents that are powered by wind: ________________________

• Deep water currents

• Density currents

• Surface currents

• Upwellings

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Generally, currents running along the West coasts of continents are ___________ currents.

• cold

• warm

• density

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At a/an ______________ deep, cold water rises to the ocean surface and brings nutrients up from the bottom of the ocean.

• upwelling

• abyssal plain

• sea mount

• estuary

The rise and fall of sea level due to the moon’s gravity is called a _________.

• gyre

• current

• tide

• wave

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A measure of the amount of salts dissolved in sea water: ____________________

• density

• saturation

• salinity

• pressure

Which part of the ocean floor is technically part of a continent?

• Abyssal plain

• Ocean trench

• Seamount

• Continental shelf