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The portion of the ocean where there is no sunlight is called?
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Mass per unit volume of a substance, usually expressed in grams per cubic centimeter, is called?
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A group of interrelated food chain are called?
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The process by which plants and algae produce carbohydrates from carbon dioxide and water in the presence of chlorophyll, using light energy and releasing oxygen is called?
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Te proportion of dissolved salts to pure water, usually expressed in parts per thousand is called?
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A nourishment level in a food chain, where in plant and algae producers constitute the lowest level, followed by herbivores and a series of carnivores at progressively high level is called?
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The proportion of dissolved substances in seawater is expressed as 0/00, which is the same as?
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The most abundant salt in seawater is?
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Salinity in the ocean is highest in regions where ____________ is high and _____________ is low.?
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A rapid change in temperature with depth in the ocean is called?
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A rapid change in density with depth in the ocean is called:
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The mass of all living organisms on Earth is called the:
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The reflectivity of a substance, usually expressed as a percentage of the incident radiation reflected is called?
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Air may best be described as:
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Which one of the following is the most abundant gas in the atmosphere?
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Fifty percent of the gases making up the atmosphere are found below:
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The tri-atomic form of oxygen (O3)is known as:
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Ozone is concentrated in the:
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The transfer of heat by the movement of a mass or substance, which takes place only in fluids is called:
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On the average, how much of the Sun's energy that is intercepted by Earth is reflected back to space?
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Which one of the following statements is true about the equinox?
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The 90 degree angle solar rays are striking the Tropic of Cancer on:
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New York City has its greatest length of daylight on:
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Earth receives energy from the Sun in this way:
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The transfer of heat energy through matter by molecular activity is:
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Halite (sodium chloride) is the most abundant salt found in seawater.
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Thermoclines in the ocean are best developed at lower latitudes.
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Plankton are organisms that swim freely in the ocean.
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The upper part of the ocean into which sunlight penetrates is called the photic zone.
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Productivity in the oceans is highest in the tropical regions.
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The emission of water vapor and other gases from volcanoes is called outgassing.
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Thermocline refers to the change in salinity with depth in the ocean.
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The pycnocline is a rapid change in density with depth in the ocean.
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Among plankton, animals that drift in ocean currents are specifically known as zooplankton.
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Tiny solid and liquid particles suspended in the atmosphere are collectively called aerosols.
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The most abundant gas in the atmosphere is nitrogen.
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Ozone is concentrated in the mesosphere.
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The state of the atmosphere at a given time and place defines the term climate.
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The aggregate or composite of weather over a long period of time best describes the term climate.
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Oxygen is the most abundant gas in the atmosphere.
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The movement of Earth in its orbit around the Sun is referred to as revolution.
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Lines that connect places of equal temperature are called isotherms.
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Earth's two principal motions are rotation and revolution.
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Land heats more rapidly than water.
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Abyssal zone is very level area of the deep ocean floor, usually lying at the floor of the continental
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Food chain is the total mass of a defined organism or group of organisms in a particular area or ecosystem.
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Neritic zone is the marine-life zone that extends from the low-tide line out to the shelf break.
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Climate is the state of the atmosphere at any given time.
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Mesosphere is the layer of the atmosphere immediately above the stratosphere.
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Weather is description of aggregates of the atmospheric condition which that helps describe a place or a region.