Geology 330 -
Television Course
Review Questions for Program #7: It's in the Water
Please fill out and
return this sheet after viewing Program #7. If you
are unsure of an answer, give your best intelligent guess.
1. What is
the angle formed in a water molecule?
2. Which
part of the water molecule is positive? Which part is negative?
3. What
does the polar (positive and negative ends) character of water
molecules do to the freezing temperature and boiling temperature
of water?
4. What
other properties are important to water?
5. Where do
salts in the ocean come from?
6. How do
salts leave the oceans?
7. What two
properties affect the density of sea water?
8. Where on
Earth do mass of sea water tend to sink?
9. Where
are two places where deep water form?
10. How do
the oceans connect to the global Greenhouse effect?
11. How
does ocean productivity take up CO2?
12. What is
one proposed way to increase productivity in the world's oceans?
13. What is
a limit to the strategy of increasing production to take up CO2?