Geography and Physical Properties of Water
The percentage of water Earth is made up of.
What is more than 70%?
Percentage of invertebrates on Earth.
What is >97%?
One of the most widespread pollutants of the ocean
What is oil?
Give percentages or numbers for the following (May need extra time):
Total volume of water vapor in atmosphere
Approximate amount of water that evaporates every year from oceans
Percentage that deep zone accounts for in ocean volume
Percentage of pycnocline
Average ocean surface salinity
Percentage of sodium and chloride in dissolved materials in seawater
1. 4%
2. 1 Meter
3. 80%
4. 18%
5. 35 psu
6. 85%
Name of the device used to study deep water sediments. (Geo wager question)
What is a piston corer?
Person who came up with Continental Drift Theory and Plate Tectonic Theory.
Who was Alfred Wegener?
Explain Taxonomy
What is the study of biological classification into 3 domains?
What is it creates dead zones in the ocean and further increases competition between organisms?
Name that brown algae and red algae are referred to as (300 for each)
Brown - Phaeophyta
Red - Rhodophyta
Gas-filled bladders of seaweed (Bio wager question)
The amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of 1 gram of a substance by 1 degree Celsius is called
What is specific heat capacity
The reason why viruses aren't biotic
What is they cannot function with out a host cell?
Define Mariculture
What is the aquaculture of marine organisms?
Explain MPAs
Fish oil from clupeoids is rich in (HEI wager)
What is Omega-3 fatty acids?
Explain Continental Drift Theory and Plate Tectonic theory. (200 each)
What is a theory which states that there used to be a supercontinent named Pangaea that then split up into the continents that we have today (CD), and a theory that states that the Earth's crust is made up of moving tectonic plates (PT)
Disciplines associated with marine bio (200 pts given for giving 3 disciplines)
Geology, Biology, Physics, Chemistry, Oceanography, Engineering
Define Ocean Acidification and explain why it would be a problem to species in the ocean
What is it is when the pH of water decreases to make it more acidic, and that because of this organisms wouldn't be able to live here because of the toxicity?
Final Jeopardy:
What is marine iguana (Flashcards version)? (2 seconds to answer)
Don't worry this was a question to waste your time. (Now on to real final jeopardy)
FINAL JEOPARDY:
The average pH of ocean water (5 seconds to answer)
What is 8.1pH? (Will accept answers that are within an acceptable range of this)
What are the 3 types of plate boundaries that exist and what do they each form. (100 pts for each feature formed and at which type of plate and boundary)
Convergent - (Mountain and volcano, Continental plate), (Trenches, Oceanic)
Divergent - (Ocean Basin, Continental),(Mid-ocean Ridge, Oceanic)
Transform - (Fault Line, Continental), (Connects Mid-ocean ridge offsets, Oceanic)
Group of invertebrates found only in marine habitats
What are Echinoderms?
Reason why fisheries were closed
What is because overfishing created pressure on these fisheries forcing them to close?