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The surface zone is the outer most layer in the ocean and is heated by the sun's energy. - A sixth grader answered this
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How does warm water mix with cool water in the surface zone?
thermocline
A layer in a body of water in which water temperature drops with increased depth faster than it does in other layers?
This is known as a thermocline. It is a layer where the temperature decreases rapidly with depth. The thermocline often separates the warm surface waters from the colder deeper waters in a lake or ocean.
Where do the thermocline and an associated pycnocline form?
Transition zone
What is the layer of the ocean extending from the base of the thermocline to the bottom of the ocean?
deep zone
What are the main three weather zones?
What Kind Of Zones There Are A lot OF Zones: Climate Zones: Polar, Tropical, Temperature Ocean Zones: The surface mixed zone, transition zone, and deep zone. But, the pyncnocline and thermocline are also phases of them. And there is the intertidal zone, the neritic zone, and the open-ocean zone.
Why the surface zone warmer than the thermocline?
The surface zone is the outer most layer in the ocean and is heated by the sun's energy. - A sixth grader answered this
Which ocean temperature zone has the warmest temperature?
suface zone and thermocline zone
What is the three temperature zone of the ocean?
there are three major zones , Surface Zone, Thermocline Zone, The Deep Zone
How does warm water mix with cool water in the surface zone?
thermocline
What marks the transition between the warm surface layer and the deep zone of cold water in the oceans?
Thermocline
What causes the oceans surface water to be warmer than water in the mixed zone or deep zone?
The sun’s rays hit the surface directly.
Why does temperature in the thermocline decrease quickly with depth?
The sun can't reach the thermocline layer to heat that depth of water
A layer in a body of water in which water temperature drops with increased depth faster than it does in other layers?
This is known as a thermocline. It is a layer where the temperature decreases rapidly with depth. The thermocline often separates the warm surface waters from the colder deeper waters in a lake or ocean.
The main thermocline is located at the zone?
In the mesopelagic
What is a Zone of rapid change in ocean temperature is called the?
A rapid change in temperature with depth in the ocean is called thermocline. A rapid change in density with depth in the ocean is called the pynocline.Thermocline
What is the temp of the open ocean zone?
surface/ open ocean zone was warmer than the deep ocean. Sunlight can reach the open ocean so the temp. is warm.
Where do the thermocline and an associated pycnocline form?
Transition zone
