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This person/society developed inventions like the water tight compartment, the rudder, and the compass.
What is the Chinese
This person voyaged to the Americas but died thinking he was in India and Japan
What is Christopher Columbus
This piece of equipment is used for scraping seabeds or riverbeds to displace or remove excess sediment.
What is a Dredge
Scientists record earthquakes by recording what type of waves?
What is Seismic Waves
What Ocean/Sea is #1 on the map?
What is the Pacific Ocean
This person hypothesized about coral reef formation
What is Charles Darwin
This person discovered and published the first map of the Gulf Stream
What is Benjamin Franklin
This object has a propeller and a compass attached to a free-swinging vertical axis in order to record the speed and direction of underwater currents.
What is the Current Meter
What are the three major layers of Earth?
What is Crust, Mantle, and Core
What Sea/Ocean is #3 on the map?
What is the Indian Ocean
This person/society was considered to be the first European(s) to discover North America
What is the Vikings
This person invented the aqualung/SCUBA
What is Jacques Cousteau
This object measures the refractive index of the water, which shows the salinity levels in the sample.
What is the Refractometer
How deep were scientists able to bore the Kola Superdeep Borehole in Russia?
What is 7.5 miles
What Ocean/Sea is #5 on the map?
What is the Caribbean Sea
This person proved that there was not an Arctic Continent
What is Fridtjof Nansen
These are considered the earliest known voyagers
What is The Phoenicians
This piece of equipment is considered the world's first deep ocean submersible; credited for locating a lost H-bomb in 1966 and surveying the Titanic, among other things.
What is Alvin
What type of wave cannot travel through Earth's liquid core?
s waves
What Ocean/Sea is #6 on the map?
What is The Mediterranean Sea
This person published the book, "The Influence of Sea Power Upon History"
What is Alfred Thayer Mahan
This person changed the map of the world more than anyone else in history.
What is James Cook
This piece of equipment measures wind speed and pressure and can be mounted to boats or docks.
What is an Anemometer
What is the difference between the inner and outer core of Earth?
What is the inner core is more dense and solid, and the outer core is dense but a viscous liquid
What is the name of the deepest point in Southern Ocean?
What is the South Sandwich Trench