Using the assigned readings for Week Six, prepare a 50- to 75-word response to each of the following questions.

The Oceans
1. What is the composition of seawater?

2. What are the three major layers (zones) found in the ocean? Describe each layer briefly.

3. What is an ocean current?

4. How do oceans regulate climate?

5. What causes a change in sea level?

6. What causes ocean tides?

7. What is the relationship between plate tectonics and the ocean floor—seafloor spreading, for example?

8. What are different ways that earth materials are moved around in the oceans?

9. What are the different types of shorelines? Describe each type briefly.

10. Why do waves change as they approach shorelines?

Atmosphere
1. What is the composition of the Earth’s atmosphere?

2. What are the four major layers of the Earth’s atmosphere? Describe each layer briefly.

3. What is the greenhouse effect?

4. How would you describe the ozone layer? Why is the ozone layer important?

5. What is the relationship among the Earth’s atmosphere, the sun, and the rotation of the Earth?

6. What is the Coriolis effect?

7. How would you define climate?

8. How does the atmosphere regulate climate?

9. What are the six global climate zones? What are the main climate effects on people and the environment?

10.  How do the oceans and the atmosphere interact?