Oceanography 101 Exam 1 || with 100% Accurate Solutions.
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Course
Oceanography 101
Institution
Oceanography 101
What is convection correct answers Cold air sinks because it is more dense
What is the lithosphere correct answers The top part of the mantle and all crust, on top of asthenosphere
In SoCal our plate boundary is... (list plate, boundary and rise) correct answers Pacific plate, transform bound...
-structure of ideas, concepts, and frameworks that explain wide range of observations
Define Hypothesis correct answers A speculation about the natural world that can be tested and
verified or disproved by further observations and controlled experiments
List the steps of the scientific theory correct answers 1) question
2)Hypothesis
3)experiment
4)Data
5)Analysis
6)conclusion
Define Parsimonious correct answers uses the simplest explanation to solve a problem
-the simplest explanations are often correct
What are the fields in oceanography and how are they used within oceanography? What are
examples? correct answers -Geology:Plate Tectonics, determining Earth's/Ocean's ages
-Biology: To understand sea life (evolution by natural selection)
-Physics: The current and waves, law of gravity, relativity of time and space
-Astronomy: The creation of solar system, big bang theory
-Chemistry: How the ocean is salty (salinity)
-Engineer: Sonar, satellites (tools to help examine the ocean) submersibles
What are the earth's four spheres correct answers -atmosphere (air)
-hydrosphere (water)
-biosphere (life)
-lithosphere (rock, outer layer/crust)
What's a cross-sectional view? correct answers view from side as if feature were cut along a
vertical plane
Block diagram correct answers three dimension view
Map view correct answers view from above (like an orange that you peel and lay out)
Mercator projection correct answers map projection that is faithful to the middle of the earth but
distorts the polar regions
What are the five oceans and which one is the largest and the deepest? Why? which is the
shallowest and why correct answers -Pacific is the largest
-then Indian ocean
-Arctic ocean and Antarctic is the smallest
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