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In the ocean, water temperature generally decreases with increasing depth due to the absorption of sunlight by the surface layer, which warms it. This phenomenon creates distinct thermal layers, with the warmest water found near the surface and a rapid drop in temperature occurring in the upper few hundred meters, known as the thermocline. Below the thermocline, temperatures stabilize and remain cold, often near freezing in the deep ocean.
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What happends to temperature as depth of ocean increases?
The temperature goes down ie it gets colder.
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
How do temperature and salinity relate to deep-current movement?
The density of the water increases with the salinity, so saline water is denser and sinks to the bottom. Temperature is also a factor, however. Cold, saline water is the densest
What is a rapid change in ocean density with change in depth called?
A rapid change in ocean density with depth is called a thermocline. This thermocline is caused by variations in temperature and can impact ocean circulation and marine life distribution.
How do temperature and pressure change as you descend into the ocean?
As you descend into the ocean, temperature typically decreases due to the lack of sunlight penetration and heat exchange with the cold deep water. Pressure, on the other hand, increases with depth due to the weight of the water above pushing down.
How does the density of water change with depth?
the density of sea increases with depth
How do conditions Change as the depth of the ocean water increases?
As wer gets deeper there is less oxygen and it gets colder.
What is the relationship between ocean depth and pressure?
As ocean depth increases, pressure also increases. This is because as water depth increases, there is more water above exerting force due to gravity. Pressure in the ocean increases about 1 atmosphere (atm) for every 10 meters of depth.
What happens as the depth increases in the ocean?
the pressure increases i forgot why but that's what i know
What happens as the depth of The ocean increases?
Its intensity decreases.
Which term refers to the layer of water in which there is a rapid change of temperature with depth in the ocean?
The term you are referring to is "thermocline." It is the layer of water in the ocean where there is a rapid change in temperature with depth, serving as a barrier between warmer surface water and colder deep water.
What is the relationship between water temperature and ocean depth?
Well as you go further down into the ocean, it will be colder. Usually but not always!! Temperature and salinity affect the density of seawater, and in many systems, density increases with depth (as temperature decreases and salinity increases). IT is however possible to observe patterns where dense water at depth is either very salty but warm, or very cold, but nearly fresh.
