Continental margin - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Natural Hazard correct answers Any natural process that is a potential threat to human life and property Factors affecting hazard risk correct answers Urbanisation, poverty, development, climate change Constructive plates correct answers Two plates move apart, magma forces way along gap and causes earthquake, erupted lava cools and forms volcano Ecotourism correct answers The practice of using an area's natural environment to attract tourists which is sustainable and won't damage area...

Marine Biology Chapter 1 and 2 with Complete Solutions Hypothesis An idea or statement that might be true, that you test through a study Variable any factor that can exist in differing amounts or types Control a group used for a standard of comparison for checking the results of a experiment What is the scientific method? procedures used to learn about our world an experiment is best described as.. an artificially created situation to test an hypothesis Edward Forbes the first scientist cre...

Marine biology is the study of: the organisms that inhabit the sea and their relationships to each other and their environment Oceanography is the study of: physical elements of the ocean itself Continental margin: Close part near ocean, still continent, near shore, part of the ocean, made of continent. a couple hundred meters exposes all of it. continental rise an underwater feature found between the continental slope and the abyssal plain TERM Continental shelf: DEFINITION A gentl...

How does heat affect density? - Hot water expands Which layer composes the plates? - Lithosphere In which tectonic setting(s) do trenches form? - Convergent, ocean-ocean, ocean-cont. What characteristic or process drives plate motions? - Sea Floor Spreading In what direction is the Pacific Plate moving relative to the North American plate? * - North West At what rate does seafloor spreading occur? - 2-5 cm per year Which tectonic features form the deepest locations in the ocean...

big bang - -still energy left from explosion -discovered in 1960s -assumes earth came from material -Kant created most pop model of formation (planet accretion) nebula - beginning form of planets many bump into others and combine earths composition - -more dense material in center -heterogeneous (bc heat and dense elements melt and flow) -accretion -compression -radioactive decay 3 layers of earth - -based on composition -core, mantle, crust -metallic core sank to center lithospher...

Marine Biology Questions and Answers Rated A Pacific Ocean Basin largest ocean basin The "Ring of Fire" encircles the: largest, deepest, covers 30% of Earth Atlantic Ocean Basin 20% of surface of the Earth, 2nd largest ocean Indian Ocean Basin 3rd largest ocean basin marine trade zone that connected East Africa, the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia, China, Korea, and Japan Arctic Ocean Basin smallest and shallowest ocean Plastic Rock Rock that behaves like something between a liquid a...

Earth's Structure - ANSWER-- Inner core is 6000°C made up of solid iron and nickel - Outer core liquid melted 2,000 Km thick - Mantle semi molten Asthenosphere - ANSWER-The upper semi molten part of mantle Lithosphere - ANSWER-The rigid mantle and crust Types of crust - ANSWER-- Continental- 30-70 km thick and less dense - Oceanic- 6-10 km thick and more dense Convection currents - ANSWER-- Lower parts of mantle rise as heated up, cool down become more dense and slowly sink - Circula...

SDSU OCEANS 100 EXAM 3 Questions And Answers (Updated And Verified) The coastal region (6 parts) - answer1) coast 2) offshore 3) beach 4) berm 5) notch 6) wave coast - answerland extending inland as far as marine is seen; land adjacent to the beach affected by the ocean offshore - answerextends from breakers to edge of continental shelf beach - answershore and nearshore; very active berm - answerdry area at foot of coastal cliff; sand notch - answercave cut into sea cliff by waves wave-...

SDSU OCEANS 100 EXAM 3 Questions And Answers (Updated And Verified) The coastal region (6 parts) - answer1) coast 2) offshore 3) beach 4) berm 5) notch 6) wave coast - answerland extending inland as far as marine is seen; land adjacent to the beach affected by the ocean offshore - answerextends from breakers to edge of continental shelf beach - answershore and nearshore; very active berm - answerdry area at foot of coastal cliff; sand notch - answercave cut into sea cliff by waves wave-...

What is the origin of the Earth? - Formed out of a solar nebula What are the origins of Life? - Archaea - the oldest origin of life on Earth What is kinetic energy? - The energy of motion What is heat energy? - Energy created by particles of matter rubbing together What is density? - A measurement of the amount of matter in a given volume of something. (mass per unit volume) What is convection? - Transfer of heat through currents caused by difference in temperature, which cause di...