Scientific Method
What is the name of the step in the scientific method in which we propose an answer to our question?
What is a Hypothesis?
He led a party to North America in 995 AD.
Who is Leif Erikson?
First and most important oceanographic voyage.
What is the Challenger Expedition?
What is the HMS Challenger?
Stands for self contained underwater breathing apparatus.
What is SCUBA?
This technology allow us to view huge areas of the ocean surface from space.
What are satellites?
A good hypothesis has the ability to be _____________ by other scientists
What is disproven?
What is tested?
Credited as the first marine biologist.
Studied barnacles, plankton, atolls and finches in the Galapagos.
Who is Darwin?
This type of technology allows scientist to remotely collect scientific data in the deep ocean.
What is an ROV?
What is a remotely operated vehicle?
The study of life in the sea.
What is Marine Biology?
In an experiment we test two groups; the control group and the...
What is experimental group?
The voyages of exploration took place during this time period.
What is the Renaissance?
This expedition helped prove that Antarctica was a continent.
What is the Wilkes Expedition?
What is the The United States Exploring Expedition?
Before marine laboratories, scientist studied marine life here.
What is the seashore?
Descriptive data.
What is qualitative data?
A well tested hypothesis supported by many facts backed by the scientific community.
What is a theory?
Were the first to use stars, oral history and maps constructed out of sticks and rocks to navigate the seas.
Who are the Pacific Islanders?
This expedition's leader (whose journey was conducted between 1872 and 1875) was inspired by Edward Forbes' discoveries.
Who is Thomson?
Who is Charles Wyville Thompson?
What is SONAR?
The ocean's produce this much of the world's oxygen.
What is half?
What is 50%?
This type of reasoning uses reasoning/ known information to arrive at conclusions.
What is deductive reasoning?
What is deduction?
First captain to have a full-time naturalist among his crew.
The The United States Exploring Expedition resulted in the foundation of what American institute?
What is the Smithsonian?
The location of the first marine laboratory.
What is Naples?
What is Italy?
We can either _____________ or ________________ our hypothesis.
What is support or fail to support?