Oceans of Earth
Careers
Ocean Studies
True or False
Ocean Life
100
This ocean is the southernmost ocean on Earth.
What is the Antarctic Ocean?
100
These oceanographers study marine plants and animals.
What are biological oceanographers?
100
The study of animals and living things in the ocean.
What is marine biology?
100
Marine biologists study the diverse living creatures and plant life in the ocean.
What is true?
100
This is the biggest animal on earth known to man on both land and sea.
What is the Blue Whale?
200
This ocean is the largest of the world's oceans.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
200
These oceanographers study the ocean floor and it's formations.
What are Geological Oceanographers?
200
The study of the scientific theory that explains how major landforms are created as a result of Earth’s subterranean movements.
What is plate tectonics?
200
Sea turtles have a short lifespan.
What is false?
200
This is the largest coral reef system in the world.
What is the Great Barrier Reef?
300
This ocean has the world's richest fishing waters.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
300
These oceanographers study the composition of water and the affects of the atmosphere on it.
What are Chemical Oceanographers?
300
This is the study of the solid rock and basins that contain the oceans.
What is Marine geology?
300
Oceanographers can only work in shallow water.
What is false?
300
True or false: Coral belongs to the class Anthozoa in the animal phylum Cnidaria, which includes sea anemones and jellyfish.
What is true?
400
This ocean is in the north polar region and is the smallest of all five oceans.
What is the Arctic Ocean?
400
True or false, an Oceanographic Engineer creates and maintains instruments and equipment for the study of the ocean.
What is True?
400
These oceanographers study the chemical properties of seawater, like salinity, temperature and pH.
What are chemical oceanographers?
400
There are very few careers in oceanography.
What is false?
400
What is an angler fish?
500
This is the world's third largest ocean and is located between Africa and a large Asian continent that has the same name.
What is the Indian Ocean?
500
True or false, a physical oceanographer studies how fast people move in the water.
What is False? A physical oceanographer studies the ocean movement and water circulation.
500
These oceanographers focus on the physics and movements of the oceans, including currents, waves, tides and heat distribution.
What are physical oceanographers?
500
Oceanographers need to have an understanding of biology, chemistry, geology, and physics.
What is true?
500
These hard shelled sea creatures lay their eggs on land.
What are Sea turtles?