Aquariums
History & Technology
Marine Chemistry
Marine Geology
Marine Physics
100
The range of specific gravity that a saltwater aquarium should be in.
What is 1.020-1.024 g/ml?
100
They developed rudimentary mapping using sticks and stones and completed the earliest known long distance open ocean seafaring journey.
Who are the Polynesians?
100
The two main factors that affect the density of water.
What are temperature and salinity?
100
The four major layers of Earth in sequential order.
What are the Crust ----> Mantle ----> Outer Core -----> and Inner Core?
100
What is the difference between spring and neap tides?
200
The most effective way for maintaining water quality in a saltwater aquarium.
Water changes
200
The expedition found the deepest part of the ocean, found numerous new species, and was organized to study the ocean
HMS Challenger
200
Due to the polarity of water and the fact that more substances dissolve in water than any other chemical, water is known as this.
What is the universal solvent?
200
Directly below the Lithosphere, this layer is highly viscous, mechanically weak, and highly ductile and located in the upper mantle.
What is the asthenosphere?
200
The factors responsible for prevailing wind patterns of Earth.
What is uneven solar heating and the Earth's Spin?
300
The most toxic substance that accumulates in an aquarium
What is ammonia?
300
They invented rudders, watertight compartments, and the compass
Who are the Chinese
300
Corals are found on the western sides of oceans because...
the warm ocean currents bring warm waters
300
He proposed the existence of the super continent Pangaea and the theory of Continental Drift and give a reason for why the theory was not accepted at first.
Who is Alfred Wegner and he was a meteorologist that could not explain how continents drifted as well as gaps in the jigsaw model?
300
Adaptations that are needed in rocky intertidal zones?
Tidal variation
Drying out
Hot water temps
Increase of salinity
400
The function of the nitrifying bacteria in a salt water aquarium (both species)?
What is to convert ammonia to nitrite (nitrosomonas) and nitrite to nitrate (nitrobacter)?
400
He invented the chronometer which allowed for an accurate calculation of longitude.
Who is John Harrison?
400
What is it called when the ocean's pH drops?
Ocean acidification, decrease in pH, more acidic bc of extra CO2 dissolving in the ocean
400
This vessel drilled holes in the seafloor to gather sediment evidence to support seafloor spreading.
What is the Glomar Challenger?
400
Wind driven motion of dense, cooler, nutrient rich water towards the Epipelagic Zone.
What is upwelling?
500
The safe levels of ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate in an aquarium.
What is zero, zero, zero (@40 ppm do a water change) respectively?
500
DAILY DOUBLE
The name of the vessel that descended to the bottom of the Mariana Trench in 1960 AND the name of the vessel that explored the Titanic wreckage.
What are the Trieste and Alvin
500
DAILY DOUBLE
What are the 3 corals and a description?
1. Fringing-right off shore "fringes" shoreline
2. Barrier-island eroded down, off shore and is a "barrier" between land and ocean
3. Atoll-volcano eroded and sinks, ring around lagoon
500
Evidence that support seafloor spreading theory.
Deposits of sediments on the seafloor (thinner near ridges are young, thicker are older),
500
Wind pushing deep water to shallower shore areas and the resultant action of water getting pushed over itself is known as this.
What are breakers?