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This group was responsible for discovering the Hawaiian Islands and were the first to inhabit most of the islands in the South Pacific.
What are the Polynesian
This career field works with nature and distribution of marine organisms
What is a Marine Biologist
What is the Pacific
This piece of equiment is used to measure water transparency/visibility
What is the Secchi Disk
Geologists have discovered that Earth has distinct layers by studying this type of natural disaster.
What is Earthquakes
This person invented the aqualung (SCUBA)
Who is Jacques Cousteau
This career field studies the ocean's dissolved solids and gases and their relationship to the ocean as a whole.
What is a Chemical Oceanographer
__ % of water is found in the oceans and around __ % is found as freshwater.
What is 97% and 3%
This piece of equiment creates images of the sea floor
What is the Side Scan Sonar
What two layers make up the Lithosphere?
What is continental and oceanic crust
These peopple were some of the first oceanic voyagers. They explored coastlines but never let it out of their sight.
Who is the Phoenicians
This career is involved in designing and building oil platforms, ships, and harbors
What is a marine engineer
This is considered the smallest of the 5 principle oceans
What is the Arctic Ocean
What piece of equipment would one use if they wanted to know the speed of the wind?
What is the Hand-held wind meter (anemometer)
What is density stratified
This person was part of the voyage that first circumnavigated the globe.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan
What is a Marine geologist
This is considered the deepest part of the ocean as well as the deepest trench in the Pacific Ocean
What is the Mariana Trench
This piece of equipment measures the density and salinity of water using light
What is the Refractometer
What is the outer core
This scientist studied currents of the atmosphere and sea and published the famous book, "The physical Geography of the Sea"
Who is Matthew Maury
Which job involves studying and observing wave dynamics, currents, and ocean-atmosphere interactions?
What is a physical oceanographer
What is the South Sandwich Trench
This piece of equiment is used to collect water samples at specific depths
What is the Nansen Bottle
This type of wave is capable of causing property damage during an earthquake and can NOT travel through liquid.
What is a surface wave