OCEANS FINAL Exam Questions With 100% Verified Answers
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The first person to circumnavigate Earth was Amerigo Vespucci. - answerFalse
Matthew F. Maury produced the first published atlas of sea conditions and sailing directions. -
answerTrue
The most significant advantage of satellite oceanograph...
The midocean ridges and rises are spreading centers where new oceanic crust is created. -
answer✔True
S waves are able to travel through both solid and liquid. - answer✔False
Oceanic-type crust is more dense than continental-type crust. - answer✔True
Volcanic activity occurs at all of the following except: - answer✔convergent boundaries between
two continental plates.
ocean ridges.
Earth's inner core is liquid whereas its outer core is solid. - answer✔False
The mechanism causing lithospheric plates to move is thought to be - answer✔a combination of
convection in the mantle and "slab pull" caused by subducting lithosphere.
The theory of drifting continents was proposed by - answer✔Alfred Wegener.
Which of the following are reasonable units of measurement for density? - answer✔g/cm 3
The present oceans have been created during the last - answer✔225 million years.
The particle size of terrigenous sediments generally ________ with distance from shore -
answer✔Decreases
Flat-topped, submerged seamounts are referred to as - answer✔guyots
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