What is another name for earth?

The Blue Planet

Oceanography is the study of ?

The Earths Oceans

What are the 4 main ocean basins: Pacific, Atlantic, Indian and ?

Artic

What is a small craft used for deep sea exploring?

Submersible

The ocean floor regions are: Continental, Mid Ocean Ridge and?

Ocean Floor Basin

In which ocean are the continental margins not associated with plate boundaries?

Atlantic

What is the gently sloping submerged surface extending from the shoreline?    

The Continental Shelf

What is the marking of the seaward edge of the continental shelf called?

Continental slope

What is sound navigation and ranging?

Sonar

What lies before the continental margin and midocean ridge?

Ocean Basin Floor

The deepest ocean trench, Challenger Deep, is how many meters below sea level?

11,022

What is found near the center of most basins?

Mid Ocean Ridge

What occurs where 2 lithospheric plates are moving apart?

Seafloor Spreading

Oil and _______ are the main energy products currently being obtained from the ocean floor.

Natural Gas

What are compact chemical structures made of water and natural gas?

Gas Hydrates

Gravel, sand,evaporated salts and ___________ are other major resources from the ocean floor.

Maganese

What is the total amount of solid material dissolved in water?

Salinity

What is the primary source of dissolved substances in the oceans?

Chemical Weathering

What is the common name of ocean salt?

Table Salt                       

What is seawater density influenced by: salinity and ?

Temperature

What includes all organisms that drift with the oceans current?

Plankton

What is an organism living on or in the ocean bottom?

Benthos 

What is an animal that is capable of moving independently?

Nekton

Avability of sunlight,the distance from the shore, and ________ are three factors that are used to divided the ocean into destinct marine life zones?

Water Depth

What is the upper part of the ocean into which sunlight penetrates?

Photic Zone

What is the area where ocean and land meet and overlap?

Intutidal Zone

What zone covers the gently sloping continental shelf?

Meretic Zone

What is open ocean of any depth called?

Pelogic Zone

What is the production of organic compounds from inorganic substance through photosynthesis or chemosynthesis?

Primary Productivity

What is the usage of lights energy to convert water and carbon dioxide into energy rich glucose molecules?

Photosythesis 

What is the processes by which certain microrganisms create organic molecules from inorganic nutrients using chemical energy?

Chemosynthesis

What do herbivores eat?

Algae

What do carnivours eat? 

Meat

What are feeding stages called?

Trophic Levels

What is the transfer of energy between trophic levels that is very ineffective?

transfer effiency

What is a sequence of organisms through which energy is transfered starting with the primary produce? 

Food Chain 

What are masses of ocean water that flow from one place to another?

Ocean Currents

What are movements of water that flow horizontally in the upper most part of the ocean surface?

Surface Currents

What are huge circular moving current systems that dominate the surface of the ocean?

Gyres

What measures the shape of the ocean surface from space?

Satellites