Mapping The Ocean Floor
The Ocean Basins
Geography of The Oceans
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True or False, The topography of the Ocean Floor is just as diverse as that of the continents.

True

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The largest of the 5 ocean basin.

What is the Pacific Ocean?

100

The Atlantic and Pacific Oceans are bounded to the east and west by these.

What are continents?

100

The time period Oceanography became an important field of study.

When was the late 1800's?

100

The 5 main Ocean basins.

What is The Pacific Ocean, The Atlantic Ocean, The Indian Ocean, The Southern Ocean, and The Arctic Ocean?

200

3 Modern technologies used in particular to study the ocean floor.

What are Sonar, Satellites, and Submersibles?

200

The smallest of the 5 ocean basins.

What is the Arctic Ocean?

200

Earth's largest single geographic feature

What is the Pacific Ocean?

200

The length of time it took for the expedition that gave Scientists the first understanding of the ocean floor's topography.

How long is 3.5 years?

200

The ocean surface is not perfectly flat because of this universal phenomenon.

What is Gravity?

300

SONAR is an acronym that stands for.

What is SOund, NAvigation, and Ranging?

300

This Ocean is slightly bigger than the Arctic ocean but still nowhere near as big as the Indian Ocean.

What is the Southern Ocean?

300

The Deepest place on earth.

Where is the Marianas Trench?

300

The name of the Submersible Jacques Piccard used in 1960 to descend into the Mariana Trench.

What is the Trieste?

300

The method used to measure water depth in the first voyage that gave Scientists an understanding of the ocean floor's varied topography.

What is lowering a long, weighted line overboard?

400

Define Bathymetry.

What is the Measurement of Ocean Depths and the Charting of The Shape or Topography of The Ocean Floor?

400

The percentage of Earth represented by the 5 Ocean basins and smaller seas such as the Caribbean and Mediterranean seas.

What is 71%?

400

Antarctica resides entirely in this Ocean.

What is the Southern Ocean?

400

The name of the ship used to give scientist the first understanding of the Ocean floor's varied topography.

What is the HMS Challenger?

400

The difference between ROVs and AUVs.

What is ROVs need constant input and AUV are autonomous?

500

If all the water from the Ocean were drained, these topographic features would be seen.

What is Chains of Volcanoes, Mountain Ranges, Trenches, and Large Submarine Plateaus?

500

The percentage of the Arctic ocean in comparison to the Pacific Ocean.

What is 7%?

500

The depth (in metres) of the deepest known point on Earth. 

What is 11,034 metres?

500

The year the first submersible was used.

When was 1934?

500

Oceanography draws on the methods and knowledge of these other fields of study.

What are Geology, Chemistry, Physics, and Biology?

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