OCEAN 320 Quizzes 1 - 6 | Verified with 100% Correct Answers
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A majority of people part of "Pew Research Center" poll (2014) were in favor of offshore oil drilling? - True
/.A study paper for this unit, "The Functioning of Marine Ecosystems", describes how impacts to the ecosystem at ...
A majority of people part of "Pew Research Center" poll (2014) were in favor of
offshore oil drilling? - True
/.A study paper for this unit, "The Functioning of Marine Ecosystems", describes how
impacts to the ecosystem at various trophic levels can effect the rest of the system.
What type of control causes declines to the entire system? - bottom-up control
/.A two-year chart of Carbon Dioxide measurements made from the top of Mauna Loa,
Hawaii, shows a saw tooth patten. Why? - global cycles of primary productivity
/.Advances in early 20th century fishing technology with larger vessels and
_______________ allowed boats to start going global instead of just fishing in local
waters. - refrigerators
/.After 100 years of plankton studies which used small nets to capture the tiny floating
creatures, what major plankton discovery was made in the 1990's of a type more
numerous than any other? - bacterial nanoplankton
/.As global carbon dioxide emissions increase, the ecosystem carbon ____________
decreases? - sink capacity
/.Based on a report by scientists at Scripps who studied marine fossil assemblages in
layers deposited over the last 85 million years, Geologically, the "modern ocean"
ecosystem is distinct from the.... - Paleogene
/.Choose from the following ALL the things necessary to create a large petro-fuel
reserve...? (select more than one) - -you need a sedimentary basin
-you need a way to trap the fluids
-you need primary productivity
/.DNA evidence that supports a coastal migration to the Americas comes from which
source? (select as many as apply) - -animal fossils
-human fossils
-plant fossils
/.Early in the 20th Century chemists created a new formulation for gasoline that made
engines run much smoother by adding dissolved mercury. - False
/.Fishing down the food web implies ....? - fishermen catch higher tropic levels first
, /.George Hadley figured out the reason that the trade winds constantly blow toward the
inter-tropical convergence zone...which is...? - constantly rising equatorial air
/.How much carbon can a mangrove forest absorb? - up to 5 times the carbon than an
upland rain forest
/.Humans need to try and limit warming to 2 degrees C.....models say this 2 C threshold
would be reached if we exceed this approximate concentration of atmospheric carbon
dioxide..........? - ~700 ppm
/.If mangrove loss rate continues at the present levels, mangrove forests will likely be
gone in 10 years? - False
/.IN "A World With No Ice" authors compare past geological times on Earth to a
potential future state of Earth.
IF we were to travel back in time what is the geological epoch of warm ocean water
immediately before the ice ages began? - Pliocene
/.In this contour Image of ocean temperatures, what is the temperature in degrees C of
the bright yellow spot in the lower right portion? - 17 degrees
/.Palau has a significant fishery and exports the majority of all the fish they catch. -
False
/.Palau is economically dependent of its local marine system - True
/.Predictions for this year are for La Nina to start dying out this spring and by summer
2022 an El Nino is expected to develop. - False
/.Rossby waves in the jet stream are NOT related to... or influenced by..... (select
three)? - -the strength of the trade winds
-the urban "heat island" effect
-changes in the output of the sun
/.Science ethical practices are guided by several factors. (select all that apply from the
following list) - -accurate record keeping
-openness
-peer review
-replication
/.Science is a blend of logic and _____________. - imagination
/.Select all of the following aspects of aqua or mariculture operations that are NOT
sustainable? - -catching "wild" fish to feed the farmed fish
-using antibiotics to control the health of the fish
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