Enter your Name:   Enter your E-mail Address:  Define the following terms: 01a. Oceanic crust 01b. Continental crust 01c. Mid-ocean ridge 01d. Subduction 01e. Salinity 01f. Coriolis effect 01g. Gyres 02. If an organism had sufficient energy (and time) and had no restrictions on its temperature, salinity or food requirements, could it conceivably travel through all four major ocean basins of the world? Why or why not? 03. Why is oceanic crust under water, while continental crust is not? 04. How is new sea floor created? 05. Why is there more life in the continental shelf region of the ocean than in the abyssal plain? 06. Name one benefit hydrogen bonding provides for marine organisms. 07. How do salinity and temperature affect the density of water? 08. Along a certain fictitious seashore, there is a processing plant that dumps its byproducts of sand and clay into the ocean. Assuming everything else is the same along this shore, would you expect more or less life near the processing plant? Why? 09. All the major currents of the ocean are driven by what phenomenon? 10. Why is the average surface temperature of the ocean near the coast of Portugal much colder than the average surface temperature of North Carolina even though they are at similar latitudes? 11. What is the difference between a spring tide and a neap tide? What causes this difference? 12. If an organism is in the deep layer of the ocean, what feature of the vertical parts of the ocean would it have to cross in order to get to the warmer surface layer above it?