What is the Stratification?:
Stratification is when water masses with different densities move around in the ocean. This happens so that the structure, productivity and circulation of the oceans enables them to survive. Without the process of stratification, the oceans' living systems would fail. Water density is temperature and influenced and salinity, where less dense, warmer waters float on top of dense, cold waters. This border between the different densities of water is called the thermocline.
How does Stratification work?:
The process of stratification may seem easy, but how water moves around is much more difficult. Of course, water cannot mix water densities across the thermocline, but there are other nature's forces that help. Wind, and up-welling and down-welling and storms help the process of stratification. This mixing of the water densities is very important to the productivity and ecosystem because it brings nutrients to the surface and oxygen to the deep waters. What also helps the water's ecosystem is the spring bloom. It provides food for many marine animals and has a very important role in the oceans' ecosystem.
Observations/Reviews
How did we create a third layer It's quite easy, actually. You have to listen to the directions. But more importantly, I had to be careful when pouring the water. If I wasn't, I wouldn't have created such a perfect third layer as you can see in the fourth picture up above. I very slowly poured the water into the bigger beaker in which I had tilted to make the pouring easier. The trick to doing this is do it slowly but quickly. As the blue water was poured into the yellow water, it slowly mixed. It had created a green layer underneath the yellow.
Lesson Review
Alright, let's review our lesson from waay above. Why is thermal stratification significant to the oceans and why does it occur? Stratification is the mixing of the oceans' thermocline. It occurs because it is very important to the habitants of the ocean. It creates and sustains life. What is the name of temperature stratification? The name is thermal stratification. Give a reason why thermal stratification of the ocean is important. It's important to the economy of the ocean because it brings nutrients from the deep waters to the surface and oxygen from the surface to the deep waters.
Stratification is when water masses with different densities move around in the ocean. This happens so that the structure, productivity and circulation of the oceans enables them to survive. Without the process of stratification, the oceans' living systems would fail. Water density is temperature and influenced and salinity, where less dense, warmer waters float on top of dense, cold waters. This border between the different densities of water is called the thermocline.
How does Stratification work?:
The process of stratification may seem easy, but how water moves around is much more difficult. Of course, water cannot mix water densities across the thermocline, but there are other nature's forces that help. Wind, and up-welling and down-welling and storms help the process of stratification. This mixing of the water densities is very important to the productivity and ecosystem because it brings nutrients to the surface and oxygen to the deep waters. What also helps the water's ecosystem is the spring bloom. It provides food for many marine animals and has a very important role in the oceans' ecosystem.
Observations/Reviews
How did we create a third layer It's quite easy, actually. You have to listen to the directions. But more importantly, I had to be careful when pouring the water. If I wasn't, I wouldn't have created such a perfect third layer as you can see in the fourth picture up above. I very slowly poured the water into the bigger beaker in which I had tilted to make the pouring easier. The trick to doing this is do it slowly but quickly. As the blue water was poured into the yellow water, it slowly mixed. It had created a green layer underneath the yellow.
Lesson Review
Alright, let's review our lesson from waay above. Why is thermal stratification significant to the oceans and why does it occur? Stratification is the mixing of the oceans' thermocline. It occurs because it is very important to the habitants of the ocean. It creates and sustains life. What is the name of temperature stratification? The name is thermal stratification. Give a reason why thermal stratification of the ocean is important. It's important to the economy of the ocean because it brings nutrients from the deep waters to the surface and oxygen from the surface to the deep waters.