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OCE Final
Crust is a product of, % of Earth's water in oceans, Water reservoir, Reason for the seasons, Wegener's Idea, Types of plate boundaries, Black Smoker, How plants change the atmosphere, Mid-ocean Ridge, Mid-ocean Rise, Two ways to form magma, Decompressional melting in mid-ocean ridges, Deep sea trench, Continental shelf, Shelf break
2013-04-29 • 111 Cards
OCE 1
Early oceanographers, Early civilizations used oceans for, Phoenicians, Arab traders, Polynesians, Early explorers needed to stay by land because..., Aristotle’s discoveries, Eratosthenes’ contribution, Pliny and the Elder’s contribution, Ptolmey: (Ancient Greeks), What came out of the Middle Ages?, Ming Dynasty of China, European explorers (1847), Dias, Bartolomeu, Columbus
2013-01-31 • 122 Cards
CHAPTER 13 OCE1001
Biomass, Bycatch, Chemosynthesis, Consumer, Dead Zone, Decomposer, Dinoflagellate, Eutrophic, Eutrophication, Food Chain, Food Web, Harmful algal bloom, Heterotroph, Maximum sustainable yield, Overfishing
2012-04-05 • 21 Cards
CHAPTER 10 OCE 1001
Backshore, Erosional Shore, Eustatic Sea Level Changes, Groin, Hard Stabilization, Headland, Longshore Current, Longshore Transport, Marine Terrace, Nearshore, Offshore, Barrier Islands, Rip Current, Sea Arch, Sea Cave
2012-03-28 • 30 Cards
CHAPTER 9 OCE1001
Centripetal Force, Neap Tide, Declination, Diurnal Tidal Pattern, Ebb Current, Flood Current, Flood Tide, Gravitational Force, Lunar Day, Mixed Tidal Pattern, Neap Tide, Whirlpool, Semidiunal Tidal Pattern, Solar Bulge, Solar Day
2012-03-28 • 20 Cards
CHAPTER 8 OCE1001
Beaufort Wind Scale, Circular Orbital Motion, Constructive Interference, Crest, Orbital Wave, Plunging Breaker, Refraction, Rogue Wave, Shallow Water Wave, Spilling Breaker, Swell, Trough, Tsunami, Wave Base, Wave Height
2012-03-27 • 17 Cards
CHAPTER 6 OCE 1001
Air Mass, Albedo, Climate, Cold Front, Coriolis Effect, Cyclone, Sea Breeze, Doldrums, Equinox, Horse Lattitudes, Jet Stream, Land Breeze, Polar Front, Polar High, Saffir-Simpson Scale
2012-03-27 • 30 Cards
CHAPTER 6 OCE1001
Air Mass, Albedo, Climate, Cold Front, Coriolis Effect, Cyclone, Doldrums, Equinox, Horse Latitudes, Jet Stream, Land Breeze, Polar Front, Polar High, Saffir-Simpson Scale, Sea Breeze
2012-02-07 • 30 Cards
CHAPTER 4 OCE1001
Paleoceanography, Lithogenous sediment/Terrigenous sediment , Quartz, Neritic Depostis , Pelagic Deposits , Abyssal Clay/Red clay, Biogenous Sediment, Macroscopic Biogenous sediment, Microscopic biogenous sediment , Ooze, Algae, Protozoans (not a key word), Calcium Carbonate , Diatoms , Radiolarians
2012-01-30 • 33 Cards
CHAPTER 3 OCE1001
Abyssal Hill/Sea knolls, Abyssal Plain, Active Margin, Bathymetry, Black Smoker, Continental Borderland, Continental Margin, Continental Shelf, Continental Slope, Continental Rise, Convergent Active Margin/Example, Deep Ocean Basin, Deep Sea Fan, Echo Sounder, Fathom
2012-01-30 • 42 Cards
CHAPTER 2 OCE1001
Atoll, Fringing Reef, Continental Arc/example, Volcanic Arc/example, Ocean Trenches, Subduction, Subduction Zone, Plate tectonics, Mid Ocean Ridge, Sea Floor Spreading, Continental Drift, Divergent Boundary/example, 3 types of Convergent Boundaries/examples, Transform Fault/2 types, 3types of boundaries
2012-01-24 • 27 Cards
Chapter 1 OCE1001
Anaerobic, Asthenosphere, Autotroph, Heterotrophs, Crust, Mantle, Core, Lithosphere, Oceanic Crust/Continental Crust, Basalt, Granite, Density, Density Stratification, Scientific Method, Theory
2012-01-23 • 24 Cards
Oceanography Part Three
abyssal plain, continental shelf, continental slope, magma, mid-ocean ridge, plates, sea-floor spreading, seamounts, sonar
2011-04-28 • 9 Cards
oceanography 2
2 nearly equal high tides and 2 nearly equal low tides daily, 2 unequal high and 2 unequal low tides daily, Abbreviation for the wind belt boundary characterized by no wind and lots of rain, Circulation cells between 30° and 60°, Circulation cells between 60° and 90°, Circulation cells between the Equator and 30° N and S, Cold, Nutrient-rich water rises to the surface, Deep water currents driven by density, Depth at which orbital motion dies out, Distance between successive wave crests, Extreme high waves associated with a hurricane, Fan shape deposit of sediment formed when a stream enters the ocean, Finger-like ridge of sand projecting part way across a bay or into a body of water, Forms when flood tide enters a stream or estuary, Glacial valley flooded with sea water
2011-04-28 • 58 Cards