Environmental Earth Science

Ocean Test Preparation

The dates are approximate, because different periods had that class on different days.

1. Read through the following objectives.

2. Go through all your notes, handouts and homework and write on each page or assignment the number of the objective below that corresponds to that work.

3. As you do this, check off each objective below for which you have study materials.

4. When you are done, if you have any objectives that do not have checks, that means you do not have anything to study for that objective, and you need to get those materials as soon as possible.

5. Put your study materials in order using the objective numbers that you wrote on everything.

6. Circle the 10 objectives that you need the most help with when you review this material in class.

To do well on the Oceans test, you should be able to:

Jan 24, 2001 Hurricanes

1. Identify why hurricanes and other major coastal storms cause so much damage.
2. Define, diagram and explain the causes of a storm surge.
3. Acknowledge the eventual storm damage to all coastal structures.

Jan 25, 2001 Storm Surge Model lab

4. Predict changes in coastal areas due to increase in sea level.

Jan 26, 2001 Surface Currents

5. Diagram the relationship between directions of prevailing winds and the directions of ocean currents.

Jan 29, 2001 ENSO and world weather

6. Identify the El Nino situation
7. Describe how the El Nino affects worldwide weather.

Feb 1, 2001 Waves, Tides, Shorelines

8. Draw and label a cross section of a wave.
9. Explain what causes tides.
10. Recognize that very high and low tides occur twice each month.
11. Describe the formation of shore features to longshore currents.

Feb 9, 2001 Shoreline issues: rip current, breakwater

12. Speculate about the effects of changes to shore areas and beaches due to longshore current disruption, wave refraction.
13. Identify what shore areas are public properties.
14. Describe and diagram the causes of rip currents.
15. Describe what to do if caught in a rip current.

Feb 12, 2001 Subsurface Currents Lab

16. Experimentally demonstrate the flow of subsurface currents.

Feb 12, 2001 The Ocean Floor: structure and deposits

17. Identify the main features of the ocean floor.
18. Describe the formation of each main ocean floor feature.

Feb 13, 2001 Salinity  (Honors classes only)

19. Define salinity.
20. List sources of the ions that contribute to ocean salinity.
21. Use chemical formulas to identify the minerals that contribute to salinity.

Feb 13, 2001 Arctic Ocean "field trip"

22. Explain the circulation pattern of the Arctic Ocean.
23. Describe how the Arctic Ocean affects climate.
24. Speculate on effects of changes to the Arctic circulation.

Feb 16, 2001 The Estuary

25. Define estuary.
26. Diagram the physical structure of an estuary.
27. List the major CT estuary conditions.
28. List reasons why estuaries are important.
29. Identify reasons why estuaries are in danger.