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Science
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Oceanography
Misc. 1
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100
Any information that is gathered using one or more of the senses or by taking measurements.
What is an observation or data?
100
These should be worn over the eyes during all labs that include chemicals and/or glassware.
What are safety goggles?
100
The study of the water in the ocean, the organisms in it, and the land beneath it.
What is oceanography?
100
A submersible vehicle that is connected to a ship where a pilot controls its navigation.
What is a remotely-operated vehicle (ROV).
100
Self-correcting feedback mechanism.
What is negative feedback?
200
A reasoned and testabe explanation for an observation. Usually in the format "if ____, then ____."
What is a hypothesis?
200
These should be worn on the feet during labs involving chemicals and glassware.
What are closed-toed shoes?
200
This discipline of oceanography deals with ocean currents, tides, waves, and ocean-atmosphere interactions.
What is physical oceanography?
200
A submersible robotic vehicle that is unmanned and preprogrammed to navigate the sea and collect data.
What is an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV)?
200
How wetlands reduce the impacts of floods.
What is they absorb flood waters and slow down their flow?
300
An explanation for several hypotheses that has been supported by repeated testing.
What is a scientific theory?
300
What you should do if a chemical splashes onto your face.
What is rinse in the eyewash station for fifteen minutes (starting with the goggles on).
300
The reasons early civilizations began to interact with the ocean.
What is to gather food, discover new lands, and trade with other societies?
300
The major importance of the global conveyor belt.
What is redistribution of heat and moderation of the climate?
300
Warm water accumulates in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean.
What is El Nino?
400
This variable is found on the x-axis of a data graph.
What is the independent variable?
400
You can find first-aid and clean-up information in these two places.
What are MSDS and chemical label?
400
How ancient seafarers (Phonecians and Polynesians) navigated the open seas.
What are constellations, the sun, and the North Star?
400
The primary force that drives surface currents.
What is wind?
400
Generally results in droughts in the Americas and flooding in the western Pacific.
What is La Nina?
500
This variable is found on the y-axis of a data graph.
What is the dependent variable?
500
This is the number one rule of lab safety.
What is follow all instructions?
500
The discipline of oceanography that deals with the organisms that live in the sea.
What is biological oceanography?
500
The transition layer of water between the oxygen-rich surface and nutrient-rich, deep water.
What is thermocline?
500
Area of low to no wind found at the equator.
What is the doldrums?