Exam 4: Water and Ocean Structure

The bending of light or sound waves is referred to as .

Explain at least three processes that happen to light from the sun as it reaches the surface of the ocean.

What is the speed of sound in seawater of average salinity at the surface?

Which property gives water an unusually high surface tension resulting in a surface "skin" capable of supporting small objects?

The wavelengths of light that penetrate deepest into the ocean are .

The thin layer of lighted water near the surface of the ocean is called the .

Residence time is the .

Red light is able to penetrate seawater the deepest.

When a hydrogen atom (the positive end) in one water molecule is attracted to the oxygen atom (the negative end) of an adjacent water molecule, a covalent bond forms.

As carbon dioxide enters the ocean, it .