EOSC 314- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 172 pages long!)
30 Nov 2017
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It is moving all the time: moving in very big scales. It is also faster than the atmosphere that is also fluid so that creates wind. It is vastly deep: covers 71% of planet in surface area, average depth is about 3. 5 km, deepest part of ocean is about 11 km. Increasing dead zones: heterotrophs, we need to consume organic carbon, breath in oxygen. Large coal swamps: permian, first reptiles, mesozoic, triassic, 90% of rine life dies, first dinosaurs, jurassic, first birds, first slowering plants, cretaceous, cenozoic, tertiary, dino extinct and many other creatures, quaternary, humans. More then half of the earth"s ocean space. Deepest ocean as well: atlantic ocean. Strong currents on this ocean separate the: they are all connected waters. Ocean vocabulary: shape of ocean, continental shelf, 200 m deep, variable dependent on continent, continental slope, long gradual slope. 2000-3000m deep: continental rise, more gradual slope, abyssal plain, very gradual slope, pretty much flat.
