Oceanography
This is the study of the depth of the ocean floor.
What is bathymetry?
This is the person who discovered the wreck of the Titanic.
Who is Robert Ballard?
This is the name of the supercontinent proposed by Alfred Wegener that was composed of all of our current continents.
What is Pangea?
The youngest seafloor rocks are found here
What are Mid-Ocean Ridges?
This is a type of organism that would be very unlikely to be found near a hydrothermal vent.
What is algae or photosynthetic life?
These are the 5 ocean basins
What are Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic, Indian, and Southern?
This is the name of the government agency that explores US oceans.
What is NOAA?
The Appalachian Mountains of Eastern North America are likely part of the same range of mountains here, according to Alfred Wegener.
Where is Europe?
This is the name for a seamount with a top that is flattened by wave erosion
What is a guyot?
This is the chemical process that supports life at hydrothermal vents.
What is chemosynthesis?
This is where most of the planet's fresh water is found.
What is ice caps?
This piece of technology would be best for taking video inside a small underwater cave.
What is an ROV?
This is the hot, partially melted layer of the upper mantle where tectonic plates move.
What is the asthenosphere?
This is the name for a volcanic island that has not yet or no longer reaches the surface of the sea.
What is a seamount?
This person believed no life could exist in the deep ocean, but was proven wrong.
Who is Edward Forbes?
This is the type of plate boundary that created the Mid-Ocean Ridge.
What is a divergent boundary?
This expedition set the "gold standard" for all future ocean exploration.
What is the HMS Challenger?
At this type of plate boundary, lithospheric plates push apart from each other.
What is a divergent plate boundary?
This is the name of a feature cut into the side of a continental shelf by glacial runoff.
What is a submarine canyon?
The name of the special breathing apparatus invented by Jacques Cousteau.
What is the Aqua Lung or SCUBA?
This is the geological process where denser oceanic crust sinks into the Earth beneath continental crust.
What is subduction?
This is a type of technology that would be needed to retrieve samples of an oyster bed located 500ft below the surface.
What is an ROV?
The reason why oceanic crust subducts under continental crust
What is because oceanic crust is denser than continental crust?
These structures are found near ridges and release chemicals and hot liquids into the water column.
What are hydrothermal vents?
These are the deepest places on Earth where oceanic plate are subducted back into the mantle.
What are trenches?