Download ocean basics

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Ocean Basics
1.
What is oceanography?
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How did the oceans originate?
3.
Is the bottom of the ocean flat? What does it look like?
4.
What is the biggest ocean? Smallest? Coldest? Warmest?
5.
What is the average depth of the ocean? What is the name and depth of the deepest point in all the
oceans?
6.
Why is the ocean blue?
7.
Why is the ocean salty? Does the salt concentration change?
8.
What is the average temperature of the ocean?
9.
What type of invertebrates live in the ocean? Vertebrates? List as many as you can!
10. What are tides? What causes them? Why do people need to know about them?
11. What are ocean currents? Name a few of the major currents near the US. How do they affect
shipping?
12. How does the ocean affect the weather?
13. What type of resources can be found in the ocean? Why are they difficult to obtain?
14. What is a tsunami? Tidal wave?
15. What is El Nino?
16. What is a wave? What moves in a wave?
17. What is the biggest fish? Fastest fish?