History of Marine Science
Marine Explorers
Modern Marine Science
Tectonic Plates
Ocean Basins
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What piece of evidence suggests that we have been using the seas since early times?
Clam shells found in a South African cave 165,000 years ago
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Who was the first person to circumnavigate the world?
Ferdinand Magellan
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What is NOAA and what does it stand for?
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; a federal scientific and regulatory agency focused on the conditions of the oceans, waterways, and atmosphere
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Who proposed the Theory of Continental Drift?
Alfred Wegener
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What part of our ocean basins do marine ecosystems like kelp, coral reefs, and seagrasses form?
Continental shelf
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Which group of people used stick charts to navigate our oceans?
The Polynesians
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What is this?
The Gulf Stream
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What modern tool is used to map the seafloor?
SONAR
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Which crust is MORE dense?
Oceanic crust
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These are large, flat featureless expanses of the seafloor.
Abyssal plains
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Which group of people were the first to circumnavigate Africa and set up trade routes?
The Phoenicians
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Which explorer was the first to see the Antarctic ice fields?
James Cook
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Who modified SCUBA gear to allow for humans to breathe underwater?
Jacques Cousteau
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What forms from convergent plate boundaries colliding?
Trenches, volcanoes
Bonus: mountains
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The energy from an earthquake is released as what kind of wave?
Seismic wave
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What did the Vikings do better than anyone else?
Designed superior ships with flattened bottoms to access shallow waters
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List two contributions of Charles Darwin.
Theory of Evolution and Natural Selection, mapped the coastlines, explained the formation of coral reef atolls, captured plankton to be studied, made extensive observations of the natural world.
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What is this and what does it do?
RV FLIP studies ocean acoustics and waves
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What is a hot spot?
A spot on the Earth's crust where magma constantly flows up creating volcanic islands (like Hawaii)
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What is this photo showing?
A tsunami
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What are the 3 reasons that scientific inquiry stopped in the Dark Ages?
1. Superstition
2. Black Death
3. Fuedalism
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How did the Challenger Expedition affect marine science? (3 things)
1. Collected water, sediment, and biological samples.
2. Discovered thousands of unknown species
3. Laid the foundation for modern marine science.
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This HOV dove down to the deepest point in the ocean. What is that point called?
"Challenger's Deep" in the Mariana Trench
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This photo shows evidence of what?
How our continents were once together because we've found fossils of the same species of animals and plants throughout many of the continents of the world. So they must have been together at some point.
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This forms in the cold, deep sea and forms an ecosystem because of the extremely hot, nutrient rich water that comes out of it.
Hydrothermal vent