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Why study the Ocean?
It's a major food source, Coastal zones for people to live, Source of energy generation via tides, ocean currents, and off-shore wind farms.
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The importance of the Ocean?
It's a top component of the Earth's climate system.
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The global Ocean heat content, from 2012 to 2013 seems to be...
Increasing
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The ocean plays a major role in which cycle?
The Carbon Cycle!
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The components of the Earth System can interact in what way?
In an orderly way.
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The Ocean has a major influence on...
Earth's weather and climate.
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The Oceans central role in climate change is evidenced by its absorption of what?
Heat and Carbon Dioxide.
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For mapping the Earth conformality is where....
all small features on Earth's Surface retain their original shapes on the map. Flat Map
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To preserve equal areas map all areas on the map are...
the same size everywhere. This is a looks like a sphere but its also flat.
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A globe map is both..
Conformal and equal area, There by eliminating the distortions from flat maps.
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The Ocean is an extremely valuable natural resource that provides...
Food, transportation, recreational use, and is a source of minerals and energy.
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The Ocean covers what percent of the Earth?
71%
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The average depth of the ocean is?
14,000 ft (or 4300 m)
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What is the primary mover of energy in the Earth System?
Water! It is moved from where there is a lot to where there isn't much.
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The Ocean is the primary source of atmospheric what?
Moisture.
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No matter how remote or how high, wind can..
transport water vapor and the latent heat absorbed during evaporation to every location on Earth.
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Water is transported to the ocean via...
Stream flow and groundwater flow.
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What occurs over the ocean adding freshwater directly to the ocean surface?
Precipitation.
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what is evidence of heat driven uphill?
The circulation of clouds and vapor in the atmosphere.
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What is evidence of gravity driven downhill journey to the ocean?
Rain and snow
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Evaporation of ocean water is a natural what?
Distillation process. It is the principal source of freshwater in the global water cycle.
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The Atlantic is saltier because?
The atlantic ocean basin loses more water to the atmosphere by evaporation than it receives by precipitation and other sources causing it to be saltier.
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The ultimate source of energy that lifts and transports the atmospheric water is?
Solar energy
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The source of energy that returns water to the ocean is?
Gravity
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