Introduction to Marine Science

Oceans

100

This ocean lies along the east coast of North America

What is the Atlantic Ocean?

200

This ocean is located between Africa and Australia

What is the Indian Ocean?

300

This ocean touches both California and Japan

What is the Pacific Ocean?

400

This ocean has contested boundaries and is found along the coast of Antarctica

What is the Southern ocean?

500

This ocean is located around the North Pole

What is the Arctic Ocean?

Seas

100

This sea is wedged between Europe and North Africa

What is the Mediterranean Sea?

200

This sea includes the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea

What is the American Mediterranean Sea?

300

This sea can be found off the northeast coast of Australia

What is the Coral sea?

400

This sea is bounded by the North Atlantic gyre and is the alleged breeding ground of both the American and European eel.

What is the Sargasso Sea?

500

This sea is found in the indentation on the west coast of the African continent

What is the Gulf of Guinea?

Marine Science Fundamentals

100

This is the branch of science that deals with the physical and biological properties and phenomena of the sea.

What is oceanography?

200

This is the study of marine organisms, their behaviors, and interactions with their environments.

What is Marine Biology?

300

A very large expanse of the sea

What is an ocean?

400

The dissolved salt content of a body of water

What is salinity?

500

The average depth of the global ocean?

What is 12,000 feet or 3,680 m?

Were you really paying attention?

100

The percentage of Earth's surface that is covered by water

What is about 70%?

200

The percentage of Earth's water that is found in the ocean

What is 97%?

300

The deepest part of the ocean is located here.

What is the Mariana Trench?

400

Located at the southern end of the Mariana Trench, this spot is the deepest known part of the ocean 

What is the Challenger Deep?

500

This is where the ocean came from

What is the off gassing of planet Earth during its formation?

Really? Like did you listen to your classmates, too?

100

The origin of the universe that ultimately led to Earth's formation

What is the Big Bang?

200

This sea contains the Great Barrier reef.

What is the Coral Sea?

300

This sea is home to the world's largest dead zones.

What is the Arabian sea?

400

This sea is bordered to the south by the islands of Borneo.

What is the South China Sea?

500

This sea was named after a British sailor and happens to be possibly the world's cleanest sea.

What is the Weddell sea?