The "Unsinkable" Ship
Voyages Of Discovery
Scientific Exploration
Exploring Inner Space
Finding The Titanic
100
Why do some objects float, while others sink?
What is buoyant force?
100
What did Ptolemy prepared?
What is a fairly accurate map of the world?
100
Who made important contributions to the field of oceanography?
What is Benjamin Franklin?
100
What did divers use to see underwater in 2500 B.C.?
What is used crude face masks that contained two small pieces of flat glass
100
Name of robot vehicle that to pass over Titanic to take pictures.
What is Argo
200
When was the Titanic located?
What is 1985?
200
Who were skilled seafarers who lived in the coastal area of Mediterranean?
What is Phoenicians?
200
Who analyzed the data collected from ships' logbooks?
What is Matthew Fontaine Maury
200
What is the acronym of scuba?
What is Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus?
200
When was the Titanic located?
What is September of 1985
300
What is constructed in ships that makes them float?
What is air-filled compartments?
300
What did English navigator, Henry Hudson, do?
What is explored and mapped the river named later in his honor?
300
How long did Meteor cruised Atlantic and what device did it use?
What is 25 months and used sonar that emits and receives sounds that took continuous readings on seafloor.
300
What diving devices were used to see for a long period of time underwater?
What is diving chamber, diving suit, aqua-lung, and scuba tank
300
What did the video pictures show?
What is showed that several steel plates were dented
400
How deep did the Titanic sink to the ocean floor in water?
What is 3,600 meters deep?
400
Why were Vikings successful seafarers?
What is they built ships that were superior to anything floating at the time?
400
What did Captain James Cook do for the scientific exploration of the oceans?
What is he explored the South Pacific on first voyage, observed that when his crew ate citrus fruit they didn't develop scurvy, and made important astronomical observations
400
What did Auguste and Jacques Piccard develop?
What is bathyscaphe, a deep diving vessel
400
How many compartments were flooded in Titanic?
What is 6 out of 16 compatrments
500
Why did shipbuilders described the Titanic an "unsinkable"?
What is it had 16 watertight compartments designed to keep the ship afloat?
500
Why is Ferdinand Magellan important(what did her do)? Did he die, if so how?
What is first to circumnavigate the Earth, and was killed in the Philippine Islands.
500
Why was H.M.S. Challenger a successful voyage?
What is crossed major oceans while carrying out a host of scientific tests, discovered 4,700 new species, and designed into laboratory ship
500
Why was Robot an important robot?
What is two meters long, controlled by computers, packed with cameras and lights, and explored the Gulf of California?
500
Why did the titanic really sink?
What is iceberg tore hull in several places, breaking steel rivets, and held enough water that cause it to sink