Chemical Oceanography

5. mixture a mixture in which the composition is not uniform throughout the mixture.
6. a steep temperature gradient in a body of water such as a lake, marked by a layer above and below which the water is at different temperatures.
8. there is an uneven distribution of electron density
11. the action or fact of forming a united whole.
13. A measure of how acidic or basic a substance or solution is.
14. the quality or degree of being saline.
15. any substance, usually liquid, which is capable of dissolving one or several substances, thus creating a solution.
16. organisms that actively regulate their osmotic pressure, independent of the surrounding environment.
17. bands of scar-like tissue that form between two surfaces inside the body and cause them to stick together.

1. relating to or denoting the cycle in which chemical elements and simple substances are transferred between living systems and the environment.
2. organisms that keep their internal fluids isotonic to their environment
3. vertical zone in the oceanic water column in which salinity changes rapidly with depth, located below the well-mixed, uniformly saline surface water layer.
4. A series of transformations or biological events which follow one after the other one, reaching at the end of the cycle the initial conditions
7. mixture a gaseous, liquid, or solid mixture that has the same proportions of its components throughout a given sample.
9. the net movement of water across a semipermeable membrane.
10. the number of things which could be people, animals, plants, or objects in a certain area.
12. a substance that can be dissolved into a solution by a solvent.
13. layer in an ocean or other body of water in which water density increases rapidly with depth.
18. A state of balance among all the body systems needed for the body to survive and function correctly.