Oceanography Exam What ya’ gotta know…

PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHYDensity • Water vs. air• Controlling factors• Displacement & salinity• Thermocline• Great Ocean Irony• Upwelling• Ocean Nutrient Enhancer• Hypoxic Zone• Global Ocean Conveyor Belt: What and why

Oceanography Exam What ya’ gotta know…

Pressure• How it causes ENSO• What it has to do with diving safetyBuoyancy• 4 dominant forces in ocean dynamicsTemperature• Causes for Gyres• Currents of North Atlantic GyreGravity• Types of Breakers• Ekman Transport: what is slowing the water?

Oceanography Exam What ya’ gotta know…

CHEMICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Common elements of seawater

What forms salt?

Why is Ca so important to the world ocean-and our atmosphere?

How much C is absorbed by the world ocean?

Oceanography Exam What ya’ gotta know…

OCEAN GEOGRAPHY

• Basic locations of the 5 oceans

• Current route for the Volvo Ocean Race