Monday

• Introduction to ocean water and life.  View digitalcurriculum video "Waves, Tides and the Coastal Environment".

Assignment:  Read pgs. 274-281.  Questions pg. 281.

• Explain the relationship between wind and waves.
• Differentiate between the movement of water particles in a wave and the movement of wave energy.
• Explain the cause of tides.
• Discuss ways in which organisms are adapted to life in intertidal zones.

Assignment:  Review questions pg. 281.  Read pgs. 282-289.  Questions pg. 289.

• Describe the origin of the ocean water.
• Discuss the origin of ocean salts, and explain why the salinity of the ocean does not change.
• Describe the benefits that organisms get from seawater.

Assignment:  Review questions pg. 289.

• Understand the density of saltwater.
  http://www.mcrel.org/whelmers/whelm64.asp

Assignment: Read pgs. 290-296.  Questions 296.

• Contrast surface currents and density currents.
• Discuss ways that ocean currents affect organisms.
• Describe the movement of water in an upwelling.

Assignment:  Review questions pg. 296.