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What percent of Earth's Water is found in the ocean? - Answer-97.5% US Naval officer who first complied information about large-scale winds and currents - Answer-Matthew Maury Average depth of ocean - Answer-3,700 meters (12,000 feet) The magnetic striping of the seafloor is considered evi...

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Marine Science Exam 1 Questions and
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What percent of Earth's Water is found in the ocean? - Answer-97.5%

US Naval officer who first complied information about large-scale winds and currents -
Answer-Matthew Maury

Average depth of ocean - Answer-3,700 meters (12,000 feet)

The magnetic striping of the seafloor is considered evidence of seafloor spreading
and..? - Answer-Periodic reversals in the polarity of Earth's magnetic field

What are the measurements of water depth? - Answer-Soundings, originally made
using a marked line with a lead weight

False statement regarding latitude and longitude - Answer-Longitude lines are drawn
parallel to the equator, while latitude lines are drawn from pole to pole

What is responsible for forming the layers of Earth and why? - Answer-Density
Stratification bc it brought heavy elements such as iron to the center

Ocean originated from what? - Answer-Outgassing of gases from earth's interior and a
barrage of icy comets or asteroids striking and melting the outer layers of Earth which
condensed into clouds and rain

How was the Continental Rise formed? - Answer-From accumulated sediments at the
base of the continental slope

Who's Continental Drift theory was not well-accepted? - Answer-Alfred Wegener

Which voyage would qualify as the first 100% purely scientific oceanographic
expedition? - Answer-Challenger Expedition

What time of boundary is a trench along the edge of an ocean next to a continent? -
Answer-Convergent with subduction

Which ocean surrounds continent of Antarctic and which ocean has largest total
volume? - Answer-Souther and Pacific

Supercontinent name - Answer-Pangea

False statement about scientific method - Answer-Hypothesis can never be falsified

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