Marine Technology
This type of underwater vehicle is used to map the seafloor and monitor ecosystems.
What is an AUV (Autonomous Underwater Vehicle)?
This type of ship replaced sailing ships, allowing faster and more reliable transportation.
What are steamships?
This ship design was fast, maneuverable, and used triangular sails, making it ideal for exploration.
What is the caravel?
This ancient civilization used papyrus reed boats and later wooden ships for trade and military purposes along the Nile.
What are the Egyptians?
This term describes devices used to measure water temperature and salinity during early oceanographic studies.
What are thermometers and hydrometers?
This program consists of over 4,000 autonomous floats that collect real-time ocean data on temperature and salinity.
What is the Argo program?
This invention allowed sailors to calculate longitude accurately, transforming navigation.
What is the marine chronometer?
The motivations for exploration are summarized as the "3 G's." Name them.
What are Gold, Glory, and God?
Known as the "traders of antiquity," this civilization developed biremes and extensive trade networks in the Mediterranean.
What are the Phoenicians?
The Age of Exploration spanned roughly from the ______ century to the ______ century.
What are the 15th and 17th centuries?
A marine biotechnology innovation that uses marine organisms to discover new drugs is called ______.
What is bioprospecting?
The first major scientific expedition to study the oceans was the ______ Expedition from 1872–1876.
What is the HMS Challenger?
This explorer’s voyage was the first to successfully circumnavigate the globe.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
This seafaring group was known for their clinker-built longships and were among the first to reach North America.
Who are the Vikings?
This global organization monitors illegal fishing activity using satellites and automatic identification systems (AIS).
What is Global Fishing Watch?
Algae is used to create this renewable energy source, which absorbs CO₂ as it grows.
What is biofuel?
This undersea survey project led to the discovery of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
What are transatlantic cable surveys?
Christopher Columbus sailed westward in search of Asia but instead reached this region.
What is the Caribbean?
This group of expert navigators used stars, ocean swells, and bird migration patterns to explore the Pacific.
Who are the Polynesians?
This fuel innovation uses genetically modified salmon to reduce feed and space requirements for aquaculture.
What is AquaBounty Technologies?
WHOI’s Hybrid ROV/AUV designed for polar exploration beneath thick ice sheets is called ______.
What is Nereid Under Ice? (NUI)
Iron and steel shipbuilding enabled the construction of larger, more durable ships for oceanic exploration. These advancements occurred during the ______.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This nation established the first maritime school and advanced navigation under Prince Henry the Navigator.
What is Portugal?
This Mediterranean civilization developed triremes and established maritime laws to regulate trade.
What are the Greeks?
The Phoenicians are credited with this early navigation technique that relied on celestial objects.
What is celestial navigation?