History Figures
The first person to travel the sea and make scientific observations on his travels while also including a full-time naturalist.
Who is James Cook?
This is considered the " Left side" of a ship.
What is a Port?
- A time of “intellectual darkness”
- To Become an illiterate society
- Believed Earth was flat
- Only European voyages were Vikings
What are the Middle Ages (800 A.D -1400)?
The continuous flow of elements and compounds between organisms and the earth.
What is the Biogeochemical Cycle?
This term refer to substances with very low pH values.
What is Acid or Acidic?
This explorer lead the first ocean expedition around the world.
Who is Ferdinand Magellen?
This is considered the " Right side" of a ship.
What is a Starboard?
- Established trade routes with Britain, Ireland, Southern Europe, North Africa, and Central Asia.
- Discovered Iceland, Greenland and North America (Newfoundland, Canada)
What is the Viking Exploration?
These 2 elements are produced through Human Activities, where the Ocean absorbs both chemicals and disburse them in two different ways.
What is Carbon and Nitrogen?
This happens when the temperature or salinity of seawater decreases, the amount of CO2 that can be absorbed.
What is the Increasing of CO2?
These two men were the first to create a Bathysphere submersible.
Who are Beebe and Otis Barton?
The 0 degree longitude line that runs through Greenwich, England that marks the starting point of every time zone in the world.
What is a Prime Meridian Line?
- Invented the magnetic compass (1125)
- Traded with Korea, Japan, and Australia
- Contributed central rudders and watertight compartments to ship building
This element can be found in rocks and sediments.
What is phosphorous?
This the is the approximate pH of typical ocean water.
What is a pH of around 8?
He was considered one of the first Marine Biologist to exist.
Who is Aristotle?
This term refers to the capture and storage of carbon.
What is Carbon Sequestration?
- Ocean expeditions were conduced for economic, political and religious reasons
What is the European Exploration?
The process of the decaying of dead marine life that releases carbon into the ocean.
What is Decomposition?
This happens when carbon dioxide combines with ocean water, and the primary end product is produced.
What is Bicarbonate?
An English Naturalist not only to study the Blue-Footed Booby Bird, but also to study Plankton and Barnacles.
Who is Charles Darwin?
Shells and corals may dissolve in an acidic environment. This is due to the breakdown of:
What is Calcium Carbonate?
- The “Wilkes Expedition”-The exploration of Americans across the Pacific Ocean
- 2 out of 6 ships returned
- Confirmed Antarctica was a continent
- Explored 280 islands
- Collected 2,000 unknown species
What is the United States Exploring Expedition?
An energetic process by which phytoplankton intake carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
What is Photosynthesis?
This is a natural or manmade reservoir that accumulates and stores some carbon containing chemical compound for an indefinite period.
What is a Carbon Sink?