a. Marine plankton b. Dissolving of marine sediments c. No such thing as "excess volatiles" in seawater. d. Outgassing of the mantle via volcanoes and hydrothermal vents 2. You can determine the salinity of a sample of seawater if you only know which of the following properties? a. The exact
1. Where do the "excess volatile" components of seawater come from?
a. Marine plankton
b. Dissolving of marine sediments
c. No such thing as "excess volatiles" in seawater.
d. Outgassing of the mantle via volcanoes and hydrothermal vents
2. You can determine the salinity of a sample of seawater if you only know which of the following properties?
a. The exact color of the water sample
b. The chlorinity of the water sample
c. The density of the water sample
d. The temperature of the water sample
e. The mass of the water sample
f. The pH of the water sample.
3. Which of the following dissolved ions in seawater is a nonconservative constituent?
a. Iron
b. Sodium
c. Calcium
d. Carbonate
4. The special type of electrostatic bond that occurs between water molecules is called _________. Hint: it gives water most of its remarkable properties.
a. covalent bonds
b. magnetic bonds
c. hydrogen bonds
d. ionic bonds
e. loving bonds
5. Where does the most pronounced thermocline occur in the ocean? In other words, at what latitude is the most drastic change in seawater temperature as you go from the near the surface (50 to 200 meters) to depth (1000 meters down)?
a. At mid-latitudes
b. Exactly right over the equator
c. At the poles
d. Near the deep-sea bottom.
e. In the tropics