Biology
The main physiological difference between dugongs and manatees.
What are tail fins? (Manatee-rounded, Dugong-pointed)
A major tectonic process that creates new sea floor.
What is sea-floor spreading?
The traditional unit of ocean salinity.
What is parts per thousand?
A wave's amplitude if its height is 2 meters.
What is 1 meter?
The area where the northeast and southeast tradewinds converge.
What is the Intertropical Convergence Zone? (Doldrums also acceptable)
Shark species well known for its very long tail.
What is a thresher shark?
The deepest zone of the benthic province (open ocean).
What is the hadalpelagic zone?
The 5 most common ions found in seawater (in order of greatest to least).
What are chloride, sodium, sulfate, magnesium, and calcium?
The two forces resulting in the Ekman spiral (theoretical surface current pattern).
What are friction (drag) and the Coriolis effect?
The effect El Niño has on the fishing industries in the Northern Hemisphere.
What are upwelling disruptions consequently affecting fish negatively?
Fishing method most responsible for bird deaths due to bycatch.
What is longlining?
The geologic period we currently live in.
What is the quaternary period?
Where dissolved oxygen in deep ocean basins comes from.
What is dissolved oxygen sinking in high latitudes / cold water?
The atmospheric circulation lying between 0º and 30º latitude.
What is the Hadley Cell?
Why electric propulsion is desirable for use in submarines.
What is air-dependent / combustion independent / more compact?
The body symmetry of the phylum Platyhelminthes.
What is bilateral symmetry?
The two major types of deep-sea oozes.
What is calcareous ooze and siliceous ooze?
The products (including byproducts) of hydrogen sulfide chemosynthesis?
What is sulfur, sugar (CH2O), and water?
The minimum velocity (mph) at which hurricanes are categorized a 5 on the Saffir-Simpson Scale?
What is 155mph?
The scientist that proposed a new theory of sea-floor spreading in 1962.
Who is Harry Hess?
Two human ailments caused by phytoplankton toxins (found in high concentrations in shellfish).
What are paralytic shellfish poisoning, amnesic shellfish poisoning, neurotoxic shellfish poisoning, diarrhetic shellfish poisoning? (Any two of the following)
One major difference between gabbro and basalt.
What is crystal size or cooling rate? (Basalt has smaller crystals because it cools quicker than gabbro)
The Redfield Ratio.
What is 106:16:1 - Carbon:Nitrogen:Phosphorus?
The factors that determine the sinking velocity of a particle, based on Stokes' Law.
What are particle size and density?
The 19th-century Japanese artist that painted The Great Wave off Kanagawa.
Who is Katsushika Hokusai?