Ch 16

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World wide average salinity is?

3.5 Percent

Brine water results from?

High evaporation rates

Brackish water results from?

In a delticswamp

The height of a tsunami grows as it approaches a coastline primarily because?

Its wavelength shortens

A general term for the coastal environment is?

Littoral Zone

Which of the following occurs when the Sun,Moon,and Earth are in alignment?

Maximum tidal ranges occur

About 2% pf the oceanic mass comprise the?

Mixing zone of blended solutes and temperatures

Which of the following is true of the ocean deep zone?

Only A &B are true.

The largest ocean in terms of area is the? and the smallest ocean in terms of area is?

Pacific/Arctic

A coral is a type of ? that secretes? to form an organic rock home.

Polyp;Calcium Carbonate

The concentration of dissolved solids in seawater is called?

Salinity

As regards wetlands; which of the following is correctly matched?

Salt marsh- Poleward of the 30th parallel in either hemisphere.

Which of the following is incorrectly matched?

Spring tides-High tides only

Waves in shallow that feel bottom are ? and more ? spaced than the swell they are related to.

Taller/Closer

Which of the following is not true of tides?

They are produced solely by the gravitational pull of the Sun.

Which of the following is not an example of an erosional coastal land-form?

Tombolo

The moons gravitational pull on the earth is greater than that of the sun?

True

An earthquake, submarine landslide, or eruption of undersea volcano is capable of producing a?

Tsunami

Which of the following is not an example of a depositional coastal land form?

Wave-cut platform

The destruction of a mangrove swamp might lead to?

All of the above are true.

A terrace is?

An uplift wave-cut platform

Coral Formations?

Are made of animals living symbolically with simple algea

Which of the following is not related to coral rock formations?

Atolls

An atoll is approximately? in shape because it forms?

Circular; around submerged volcanic islands.

From inland to the ocean, which sequence of zones is correct?

Coast, Backshore,Foreshore,Nearshore

Near the shore, waves begin to feel bottom, and as a result the orbits of the water molecules in the wave become mire? The process eventually cause? to form.

Elliptical/Breakers

Although many elements are dissolved in seawater, no gases are dissolved in it?

False

As the evaporation rate increases, the salinity decreases.

False

Brine water tends to occur near coastal deltas.

False

Seawater is not a solution?

False

Because the algae which live in symbiotic relationship with coral perform? corals?

circular;around submerged volcanic islands


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