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Marine Science - Answer-Process of discovering facts, processes, & unifying principles that explain nature of oceans & their associated life forms.; Involves physical, life & earth/space science How much of the oceans have humans seen? - Answer-Very little of the ocean; about the size of a perio...

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Marine Science Exam Review Questions
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Marine Science - Answer-Process of discovering facts, processes, & unifying principles
that explain nature of oceans & their associated life forms.; Involves physical, life &
earth/space science

How much of the oceans have humans seen? - Answer-Very little of the ocean; about
the size of a period on a page

Who made the first recorded sea voyage? - Answer-The Egyptians

What did the Phoenicians do for marine science? - Answer-Established first trade routes
through mediterranean
earliest known regular open-seafaring beyond sight of land

Greek Pytheas - Answer-Used North Star to determine how far north or south sailor is
on ocean

Eratosthenes - Answer-Created first latitude/longitude system
Calculated Earth's circumference

Latitude and Longitude - Answer-Identifies specific locations on Earth's surface

Latitude - Answer-parallel
equator is 0 degrees parallel

Longitude - Answer-Meridian
0 degrees meridian runs through Greenwich, England

Chinese ships in 1400s - Answer-Central rudder
watertight compartments

Vespucci - Answer-First European explorer to recognize South America as new
continent

Balboa - Answer-Crossed Isthmus of Panama & found Pacific Ocean

Magellan - Answer-Led first expedition around world in 1519-1522

James Cook - Answer-voyages differ from other sea explores because he had science
and exploration as only goals

, Darwin's hypothesis - Answer-explains that coral reefs form though process of coral
growth as seafloor subsides/sinks

Challenger Expedition - Answer-first expedition devoted entirely to marine science

German Meteor Expedition - Answer-Mapped Atlantic seafloor

Atlantis - Answer-first ship constructed specifically for marine science

ROV - Answer-Remotely operated vehicle
Small, unmanned, sub w/ propellers, video camera and umbilical to surface

AUV - Answer-Autonomous underwater vehicle
Untethered robotic devices propelled through water by self-contained power systems&
controlled/piloted by onboard computer

GPS - Answer-made navigation significant;y more accurate

Theory of formation of planets - Answer-Some condensing gas revolving around sun
collapsed into masses too small to become stars

Theory of moon's origin - Answer-planet-sized object struck young Earth, sending
material into orbit

Theory of Formation of oceans - Answer-after earth cooled, water accumulated on
surface

Autotroph - Answer-Self-feeding

Heterotroph - Answer-Must get NRG from other organisms

Theory of evolution - Answer-says modern organisms and characterisitcs arose through
processes of mutation and natural selection over millions of years

Benthic Zone - Answer-botton

Abyssal zone - Answer-Deep open ocean bottom

Pelagic zone - Answer-water portion

Intertidal zone - Answer-continental shelf

nertic zone - Answer-between low-tide mark and edge of continental shelf

oceanic zone - Answer-open ocean

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