Marine Biologist
Who is the first person credited with showing latitude and longitude on a map of the
sea using grid divisions in terms of degrees, minutes and seconds?
Who is Ptolemy?
The study of organisms of the sea.
What is the Marine Biology?
The “Wilkes Expedition”-The exploration of Americans across the Pacific Ocean.
What is the United States Expedition?
Our earth is 78% made up of this gas. Animals and plants CANNOT DIRECTLY use all of this gas found in our atmosphere.
Animal waste decay by the action of bacteria which creates ammonia nd nitrate which is useful for plants.
What is the Nitrogen Cycle?
•Established trade routes with Britain, Ireland, Southern Europe, North Africa, and Central Asia.
•Discovered Iceland, Greenland and North America (Newfoundland, Canada)
•Contributed to European ship design
What is the Viking Exploration?
Which of the following explorers led the first ocean expedition around the world?
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
The process where plants take in Carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and water from the soil.
What is Photosynthesis?
•First expedition entirely devoted to marine science- 1872 to 1876
•Sailed 80,778 miles
•Report took 23 years to complete
What is the " Challenger"/ British Expedition?
Transpiration is a process that occurs on plants and not animals through evaporation.
What is the water cycle?
•Renaissance period- centered in Italy
•Ocean expeditions were conduced for economic, political and religious reasons
What is the European Exploration?
An English sea captain. One of the first to make scientific observations on his travels and to include a full-time naturalist.
Who is James Cook?
The atmosphere the consist of all living organisms, in including humans.
What is the Biosphere?
Ocean expeditions were conduced for economic, political and religious reasons.
What is the European Expedition?
The process that requires Photosynthesis to work.
What is the Carbon Cycle?
•Invented the magnetic compass (1125)
•Traded with Korea, Japan, and Australia
•Contributed central rudders and watertight compartments to ship building
What is the Chinese Exploration?
English Naturalist on the Beagle in 1831. Described atolls (ring shaped reefs), and Studied plankton and barnacles.
Who is Charles Darwin?
The rocky non-living part of earth.
What is the Geosphere?
Used the chronometer- an instrument that helped to determine his longitude and latitude and make accurate charts.
What is the James Cook Expedition?
This cycle moves between soil and plants. It is also eaten by animals which helps return it back to the soil for the next generation.
What is the Phosphorous Cycle?
•A time of “intellectual darkness”
•Become an illiterate society
•Believed Earth was flat
•Only European voyages were Vikings
What is the "Middle Ages" Exploration?
His system for recording oceanic data was adapted worldwide especially his studies of currents and winds.
Who is Matthew Maury?
Shells and corals may dissolve in an acidic environment. This is due to the
breakdown of:
What is Calcium Carbonate?
Discovered the Mid-Atlantic ridge and the Marianas Trench (The deepest oceanic trench on earth).
What is the "Challenger"/ British Expedition?
C6H12O6 + 6O2 = 6CO2+6H2O+ ENERGY
What is the Oxygen Cycle?
•2 out of 6 ships returned
•Confirmed Antarctica was a continent
•Explored 280 islands
Collected 2,000 unknown species
What is the United States Exploration?