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Bob-Dole

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Explain how salinity is measured.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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List and explain the characteristics of the zones of the ocean.
 
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kristenb95

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Answer to Question 1

Salinity is measured in units, or number of grams, of dissolved salt in 1,000 grams of seawater.

Answer to Question 2

The zones of the ocean include the above-water zones of the supratidal and intertidal, the biological zone of the
neritic, the zone containing the continental rise and fall of the bathyal, and the deep-water zone of the abyssal.




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