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An upwelling brings nutrients from the floor of the ocean to the surface?
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An upwelling brings nutrients from the floor of the ocean to the surface true or false?
true
Why are upwelling areas usually very productive fishing areas?
Since upwelling displaces the warmer water with less or no nutrients (located on the ocean surface) with the colder water with more nutrients (located near ocean floor), upwelling water contains more nutrients. These nutrients come from dead or decaying organic matter on the ocean floor, which release nutrients like phosphate and nitrate. When these nutrients are brought up to the surface water, phytoplankton use these nutrients, along with energy from the sun, to perform photosynthesis and produce organic compounds.
What Are Upwelling currents?
Ocean up welling is a term to describe the water rising from the deep depths of the ocean floor because of specific wind patterns. Upwellings are caused by strong seasonal winds moving surface coastal water out from the coast and leaving a space that the upwelling fills in.
The rising of cold water from deeper layers to replace warmer surface water is called?
Streamlike movements of water that occur at or near the surface are called surface currents. So logically, a deep current are streamlike movements of water that flow very slowly along the ocean floor.
What cold currents near coastlines might indicate sites of upwelling?
The cold currents flowing along the ocean floor displaces the warmer water upward, which shows sites of upwelling.
Why does a floodplain contain fertile soil that is good for growing plants?
because when the water floods it carries the rich sediments of the water floor and brings them to the surface where it deposits
What are abotic factors in changing water depths?
The deeper the water gets the less light is available for photosynthesis, and you can imagine that with less photosynthesis taking place there is progressively less dissolved oxygen. Since nutrients are heavy (think decomposing animals) they tend to sink to the ocean floor where it is very nutrient rich. The closer to the surface the more nutrient poor you tend to be unless you are near a shore where tides may push nutrients up in what is called an upwelling. Upwellings are ussually seasonal and mix the distinct levels of the body of water.
What is ocean upwelling?
Ocean up welling is a term to describe the water rising from the deep depths of the ocean floor because of specific wind patterns. This is something beneficial to phytoplankton because the deep cold water has nutrients and dissolved gases that, with sunlight, allow the plankton to photosynthesize. from Vader134
What word rhymes with core and is a surface we walk on?
floor
What is the meaning of sea floor-spreading theory?
in the theory of plate tectonics, the process by which new oceanic crust is formed by the convective upwelling of magma at. your welcome peoples!!!!
What was the hypothesis of the sea-floor spreading?
excess nutrients in the water
What could be a good sentence for surface?
the surface of this floor is very smooth.
