What is the name of the process in which the ocean floor is mapped? correct answers Bathymetry
Name the 4 parts of the continental margin on the figure below. correct answers A: Shelf
B: Shelf Break
C: Slope
D: Rise
What is the deepest part of the ocean? And how deep is it? correct answers...
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What is the name of the process in which the ocean floor is mapped? correct answers Bathymetry
Name the 4 parts of the continental margin on the figure below. correct answers A: Shelf
B: Shelf Break
C: Slope
D: Rise
What is the deepest part of the ocean? And how deep is it? correct answers The Mariana Trench
in the Pacific Ocean roughly 36,000 feet under sea line.
Describe how echo sounders measure the depth of the seafloor. correct answers An echo sounder
is a sonar device that sends out pulses of sound to measure depth by the returning echo.
Match the name of the marine province (the column on the left) to the correct description (the
column on the right). correct answers Pelagic: the zone that contains all of the water column.
Benthic: the hard bottom of the seafloor.
Neritic: the water column from low tide to shelf break.
Oceanic: the water column from the self break to the water just above the bottom of the seafloor.
Pacific: Answer 1
Answer 2:Atlantic
Answer 3:Indian
Answer 4:Arctic
Answer 5:Southern correct answers is the largest ocean on our planet, located in both the
northern and southern hemispheres.
is the second largest and is in both the northern and southern hemispheres.
this ocean is the third largest and is located mostly in the southern hemisphere.
the smallest ocean located only in the northern hemisphere.
is an unofficial ocean and located only in the southern hemisphere.
Lines of latitude are parallel to the prime meridian. correct answers False
Which of the following statements are true about the lines of longitude? correct answers The
lines of longitude run through both the north and south poles.
A nautical mile is equal to [number] land miles. correct answers 1.15
Explain how a sailor can use the north star to navigate the ocean at night. correct answers The
North Star appears to stay fixed, closely in relation to latitude to help guide.
, We believe the process that created all the objects in our solar system is called what? correct
answers Accretion
Isostasy is the numerical measurement of how thick a layer of the Earth is. correct answers False
Describe and name the process in which the layers with in the Earth was created. correct answers
Approximately 4.6 billion years ago the earth was formed from hot molten rock with plasmic
fluid surfaces, creating the core. As superficial radioactive elements decayed on top the earth
formed the mantle. Then with pressure and gravitational pull the crust formed.
Match the name of the layer based on the Physical Properties. correct answers Answer
1:lithosphere
Answer 2:Asthenosphere
Answer 3:Outer Core
Answer 4:Inner Core
There are two types of seismic body waves; S and P waves. Describe the differences between
these two types of waves. Give at least three examples. correct answers The study of vibrations
impact the Earth, so a P wave is a primary shock acting like revolting coil that impacts the Earth
with compressional force while S waves sway back and forth as a secondary wave. Examples are
compression wave, shear wave; and a longitudinal waves.
How do we know what the interior of the Earth looks like? correct answers Scientists studied the
seismic waves that pass through the Earth.
The outer most layer of our planet is called the crust it is divided into two distinctive types based
on their composition. correct answers The inner crust is very dense and mainly composed of
basaltic igneous rock.
The outer crust is less dense and mainly composed of granitic igneous rock.
The planets in our solar system are put in to categories based on what they are made of. Fill in
the blank with the correct category name based on the given description below. correct answers
Terrestrial Planets: planets that a core of metal surrounded my rock.
Jovian (Gas Giants) Planets: planets are predominately made of hydrogen and helium gas.
Ice Giants: planets that are made up of water ice, methane ice, and ammonia ice.
What was the theory that Alfred Wagner proposed in 1912? correct answers continental drift
What process created the Hawaiian Islands? correct answers Mantle Plumes/ Volcanic Activity
What was the name given to the super continent that existed approximately 200 million years
ago? correct answers Pangaea
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