Unit 6-Seawater Chemistry

Main Questions

1. What is in seawater besides water?
   
2. What is salinity? What affects salinity?
3. What dissolved substances are found in seawater?
4. What is pH and how does it relate to seawater?

Main Concepts

Vocabulary

acid, alkaline, atom, base, brackish, buffering, calorie, chlorinity, covalent bond, electron, electrostatic attraction, evaporation, halocline, hydrologic cycle, hyrdrometer, hypersaline, ionic bond, ion, kinetic energy, molecule, neutral, neutron, nucleus, parts per thousand, pH scale, polarity, precipitation, principle constant of proportions, proton, residence time, salinity, salinometer, surface tension, temperature, thermocline, thermostatic effect, vapor

Schedule

• Week 13 Schedule
• Week 14 Schedule
• Week 15 Schedule
• Week 16 Schedule
• Week 17 Schedule
• Week 18 Schedule
• Week 19 Schedule

Documents

• Periodic Table of Elements (html)
• Elements Data (spreadsheet)
• Seawater Chemistry Lab I-Dissolved Solids and Liquids
• Seawater Chemistry Lab II-Dissolved Gasses
• pH Lab
• Notebook/Binder Check
• Water Cycle Handout
• All Data for Water Testing

PowerPoints

• Periodic Table of Elements (ppt)
• Sea Water Chemistry PowerPoint (Introductory Oceanography, 10E, Thurman and Trujillo, 2004)
• Acids, Bases, and pH

Quizzes

• Week 14 Quiz
• Week 15 Quiz

Links

• Water Quality Parameters