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Oceans 11 Exam Outline
The format of the exam will be:
Part A: Multiple Choice
Part B: Match Up
Part C: True & False
Part D: Fill in the Blanks
Part E: Diagrams
Part F: Short/Long Answer
Part G: Article & Questions
Total points
20 points
10 points
5 points
5 points
20 points
30 points
10 points)
100 points
40 questions
20 questions
10 questions
10 questions
5 diagrams
4 questions
10 questions
Guiding Questions:
1. What are the deep V-shaped valleys found cut into either the continental shelf or slope?
2. What is the Percentage of Ocean, freshwater on the Earth's surface?
3. Evidence used by Alfred Wegener to support his hypothesis of continental drift.
4. What is the largest single geographic feature of our planet?
5. What ocean contains more than half of all the ocean water on earth?
6. What is used to determine the depth of the ocean floor?
7. What are the layers of Earth?
8. What is the age differences of the continental crust and oceanic? (Hint. Which one is younger?)
9. The Hawaiian Islands are associated with which type of plate boundary?
10. Where do the majority of the world's earthquakes occur along which plate boundaries?
11. The Trench is associated with which type of plate boundary?
12. Iceland is associated with which type of plate boundary?
13. What are the characteristics of the Pacific Ocean?
14. The Andes Mountains are associated with which type of plate boundary?
15. Describe and know the layers of the earth?
16. What coastline is the largest in the world?
17. Know the different types of plate boundaries and examples.
18. What plate boundary is associated with Continental mountain?
19. Which layer of the Earth is made up of tectonic plates?
20. What is the process by which the ocean floor sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantle?
21. How is a rift valley formed?
22. Which of the following appears to cause movement of Earth's tectonic plates?
23. Define neap tides and spring tides.
24. What is the main cause of the Gulf Stream?
25. Define salinity.
26. What causes the currents to curve instead of moving in straight lines?
27. Know the characteristics of cold water and warm water in relation to density.
28. What occurs when circulation in the ocean brings deep, cold water to the ocean surface?
29. Know the characteristics of a wave and be able to label the diagram.
30. What is the highest and lowest point on a wave?
31. What are surface currents caused by?
32. What is caused when wind blows across a body of water which causes the water to move?
33. The size of a wave is affected by?
34. What are density currents caused by?
35. The wind that blows on the water, passing it’s energy to the water. As this energy passes through the water, in what way do the water molecules move?
36. Know the different zones of the ocean.
37. Where does the neritic zone of the ocean lie?
38. What is the series in which a large fish eats a small fish that has eaten algae?
39. Define a Biome, ecology, ecosystem, biosphere and abiotic and biotic.
40. What is an abiotic factor that varies less in marine biomes than in land biomes?
41. Among the following which term includes the others salt marsh, lagoon, mangrove swamp and estuary?
44. Know the water cycle and be able to label the diagram.
45. Marine biomes are divided into ecologically distinct zones what are they?
46. In a marine biome, organisms experience radical changes in their environment each day in which zone?
47. In a lake containing sunfish, northern pike, water bugs, algae, and minnows, what organism would be present in the smallest numbers?
48. In the North Sea, tuna feed on herring and herring feed on sand eels. Cod and seabirds also feed on the eels. Assuming that North Sea fishermen
overfish cod and herring to the point that their populations greatly decrease, what is the most likely result on the tuna and seabird populations?
49. Sonar uses WHAT to find objects in the ocean?
50. Why do Ocean basins get wider with time?
51. What are tectonic plates moved around by?
52. The Himalayan Mountain Range of Asia is an example of what plate?
53. Ocean floor is neither created nor destroyed along which plate boundaries?
54. What are Island Chains are formed by?
55. Define tides.
56. What is the horizontal distance between successive crests known as?
57. A substantial rise in sea level along a coast during a severe storm is called what?
58. The tidal bulge on the side of the Earth opposite the moon is due to what?
59. What ocean contains more than half of all the ocean water on earth?
60. What is the deepest ocean on earth?
61. What is used to determine the depth of the ocean floor?
62. What are the three principle gases found in the ocean?
63. What gases dissolves most easily in ocean water?
64. What do evaporation and freezing increase in the ocean?
65. What ocean has very low salinity because of the low evaporation rate and the large amounts of freshwater that enter this ocean?
66. What are the two factors that affect the density of ocean water?
67. What are the free-floating, microscopic plants and animals called?
68. What removes dissolved gases and nutrients from the water and uses the energy from sunlight to carry on photosynthesis?
69. What serves as a food source for zooplankton?
70. What other process, in addition to the action of waves and tides, causes deep ocean water to move upward?
71. What is the process that extracts freshwater from saltwater?
72. What is the most valuable mineral resource taken from beneath the sea floor?
73. What is the driving force of surface currents?
74. What are the huge circles of moving water that flow clockwise in the northern hemisphere, and counter clockwise in the southern hemisphere?
75. What two factors affect the density of ocean water and cause deep currents?
76. What is a periodic up and down movement of water?
77. What are the two basic parts of a wave?
78. What is the speed of a wave that has a wave that has a wavelength of 225 meters and a period of 15 seconds?
79. What destructive waves can be caused by volcanic eruptions and underwater landslides, but are usually the result of an earthquake on the ocean
floor?
80. How many high tides and low tides do most locations in the ocean have daily?
81. What are the tides called when higher high tides occur and lower low tides occur?
82. What kinds of tides occur when the difference between the levels of high tides and the low tides at a specific location are small?
83. Be able to label and describe the Ocean floor: abyssal plain, continental slope, continental rise, continental shelf, trench, magma, volcanic island,
and mid-ocean
84. Know the anatomy of a fish.
85. Name one marine science career, and give a brief description about it.
86. Know the properties of water.
87. Know the marine biome and oceanic food chains. Be able to create a diagram of a oceanic food chain.
88. What is aquaculture? Give examples
89. Why is aquaculture so important to us? Give reasons for your answer.
90. What conditions must be monitored when being involved in aquaculture?
91. What are invasive species, give examples and what can be done to reduce the problem?
92. What does DFO stand for?
93. Name two advantages and two disadvantages of fish farming?
94. What are two species we farm here in Nova Scotia?
95. Be able to define the following terms: Earthquakes, Lithosphere, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, The Mantle, Continental Shelf, Subduction, Abyssal plains,
Core, Marianna trench, Photosynthesis, Herbivores, Scavengers, Nekton. Zoo plankton, Parasitism, Omnivores, The tropics, Benthos, and
Mutualism.