History
What is the latitude of the equator?
O0 Latitude
What is the supercontinent that connected all of the land masses?
Pangea
Salinity
What is the effect of Earth’s rotation (the apparent deflection) on moving objects?
Coriolis
What makes the ocean blue?
The sun
Chronometer
A __________ is a body of water similar to a river but contains brackish water
Lagoon
What tool would you use to measure water clarity and depth?
Secchi disk
What is measured from crest to crest?
Wavelength
Which marine organism urinates on others to communicate?
Lobsters
The Physical Geography of the Sea was published by ______________
Mathew Maury
What happens at divergent plate boundaries?
Two plates move away from each other
What body of water would you be able to float in the best?
Ocean
What is a system of deep ocean currents that connects all of the world’s ocean basins?
Global Conveyer Belt
These marine organisms are sleepwalkers (sleep swimmers)
Dolphins
Who was the person that went to the deepest part of the ocean for the 2nd time?
James Cameron
Guyot
What decreases the pH of the ocean due to an increase of carbon dioxide?
Ocean acidification
Coriolis effect rotates ___________ in the Northern hemisphere and ________________________ in the Southern hemisphere.
Clockwise, counterclockwise
What is the smallest marine mammal?
Sea otter
What piece of diving equipment delivers air to your mouth from the tank?
Regulator
What is the order of the horizontal oceanic zones?
Intertidal, Neritic, Oceanic
What is the term used for organisms undergoing balancing the amount of water and salt in their bodies?
Osmoregulation
What is the order of the four general stages of a tsunami?
initiation, split, amplification, run-up
What is the largest marine mammal that currently exists?
Blue Whale