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The "founders" of Oceanography.
What is Maury & Forbes?
100
The measure of kinetice energy of water.
What is Temperature?
100
The deepest part of the ocean (zone)?
What is the abyssal zone?
100
This tank helps ships and submarines rise and fall in the water.
What is a ballast tank?
100
Microscopic plants.
What is phytoplankton?
200
The first ship to sail around the world and study the ocean
What is the challenger?
200
This means the water molecule is slightly magnetically charged.
What is polar molecule (or polarized)?
200
These fish have fishing rods on their heads.
What are Angler Fish?
200
This disk is used to measure visibility.
What is a sechii disk?
200
Microscopic animals.
What is zooplankton?
300
The 4 branches of science used to study oceanography.
What is biology, physics, chemistry, and geology.
300
The property of water that lets it move through small pores.
What is capillary action?
300
These under sea volcanoes emit hydrogen sulfide.
What are Black smokers?
300
This net captures microscopic plants and animals.
What is plankton net?
300
This category of animals live on the sea floor.
What are benthos?
400
SCUBA
What is "self contained underwater breathing aparatus"?
400
The three staes of matter for water.
What is water ice, liquid water, and water vapor?
400
These worms live near undersea vents.
What are tube worms?
400
This deep sea submarine or DSV can dive three miles.
What is ALVIN?
400
All free swimming animals.
What are nekton?
500
One lets water in, one doesn't.
What is a wet suit and a dry suite?
500
When a water has "skin" on its surface.
What is surface tension?
500
This property increases with depth.
What is water pressure?
500
This submarine was attacked by a swordfish, and on another occasion it wrecked and sank to the bottom of the sea, where it stayed for over a year.
What is ALVIN?
500
This process by which deep sea animals convert volcanic sulfides into energy.
What is chemosynthesis?