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- 1. Multiple Choice
What % of the world is water?
20%
50%
70%
97%
- 2. Multiple ChoiceName the ocean labeled 1?Pacific OceanIndian OceanArctic OceanSouthern Oce
- 3. Multiple ChoiceName the ocean labeled 2?Indian OceanArctic OceanAtlantic OceanSouthern Ocean
- 4. Multiple ChoiceName the ocean labeled 3?Southern OceanArctic OceanAtlantic OceanPacific Ocean
- 5. Multiple ChoiceName the ocean labeled 4?Indian OceanSouthern OceanPacific OceanAtlantic Ocean
- 6. Multiple ChoiceName the ocean labeled 5?Pacific OceanAtlantic OceanIndian OceanSouthern Ocean
- 7. Multiple Choice
Why are Earth’s oceans salty?
Rain washed salts into them.
They contain a lot of water vapor.
Algal blooms in the ocean produced salt.
- 8. Multiple ChoiceWhy is there high salinity in the Mediterranean Ocean?precipitationevaporationvolcanoesdeposition
- 9. Multiple ChoiceSea levels rise when glacial ice caps-growmeltmigratehit the Titanic
- 10. Multiple Choice
Tides are created by the pull of the Sun's and Moon's gravity. What area of oceanography does this fall under?
Marine
Geological
Chemical
Physical
- 11. Multiple Choice
What area of oceanography would the study of underwater mountains this fall under?
Marine
Geological
Chemical
Physical
- 12. Multiple Choice
__________ deals with such things as the temperature and density of seawater at varying depths; the tides, currents, and waves; the way that seawater transmits light and sound.
Physical oceanography
Chemical oceanography
Geological oceanography
Biological oceanography
- 13. Multiple Choice
__________ deals with such things as the pH and salinity of seawater.
Physical oceanography
Chemical oceanography
Geological oceanography
Biological oceanography
- 14. Multiple Choice
__________ deals with such things as the sediments and rock layering in seawater.
Physical oceanography
Chemical oceanography
Geological oceanography
Biological oceanography
- 15. Multiple Choice
__________ deals with the living components of seawater.
Physical oceanography
Chemical oceanography
Geological oceanography
Biological oceanography
- 16. Multiple Choice
This scientist's name is ________; he was known as the “father of oceanography” and published the first oceanography book.
Matthew Maury
Magellan
de Gama
Jacques Cousteau
- 17. Multiple Choice
This scientist's name is ________; he was known as the “father of oceanography” and published the first oceanography book.
Matthew Maury
Magellan
de Gama
Jacques Cousteau
- 18. Multiple Choice
____________ was known for being the first to circumnavigate the globe.
Matthew Maury
Ferdinand Magellan
Vasco de Gama
Jacques Cousteau
- 19. Multiple Choice
Which major ocean is closest to our state of Pennsylvania?
Atlantic
Pacific
Indian
Arctic
- 20. Multiple Choice
Who were the great sailors and explorers of the South Pacific?
Polynesians
Phoenecians
Vikings
Egyptians
- 21. Multiple Choice
Who were the first sailors to reach and settle in Iceland, Greenland, and North America?
Vikings
Phoenecians
Polynesians
Greeks
- 22. Multiple Choice
Who is credited with inventing the compass?
Africans
Chinese
Romans
Greeks
- 23. Multiple Choice
The captain of the first voyages made purely for the scientific study of the oceans was
Cook
Harrison
Behaim
Toricelli
- 24. Multiple Choice
Where is the ocean deepest?
ocean trench
volcanic island
abyssal plain
mid-ocean ridge
- 25. Multiple Choice
____________________ is the process by which water on the ground surface enters the soil. ________________ rate in soil science is a measure of the rate at which soil is able to absorb rainfall or irrigation.
Infiltration
Percolation
Deposition
Condensation
- 26. Multiple ChoiceAs water vapor rises in the atmosphere it can turn into water droplets or ice crystals which results in cloud formation.precipitationcondensationground watersurface water runoff
- 27. Multiple ChoiceForms of water falling from the sky as rain, sleet, hail, and snow.condensationtranspirationprecipitationsurface run off
- 28. Multiple ChoiceThis forms when water vapor changes from gas directly to ice crystals on a surface when the temperature at which condensing would take place are at the freezing point or below.dewrainsnowfrost
- 29. Multiple ChoiceThis occurs when heat is added, water turns into a gas.condensationevaporationtranspirationcrystallization
- 30. Multiple ChoiceWhen water enters the atmosphere as water vapor through the release of water vapor from plants' leaves.evaporationtranspirationcondensationground water
- 31. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is not a way water enters the ocean?
groundwater discharge
precipitation
condensation
sublimation
- 32. Multiple Choice
Which of the following ways can water exit the ocean?
evaporation
sublimation
deposition
groundwater flow
- 33. Multiple ChoiceI started a school for navigators and people who wanted to go out exploring.ColumbusPrince HenryPoloMagellan
- 34. Multiple ChoiceI believed I could read Asia by traveling west across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492. I asked the king and queen of Spain to pay for my journey.Cabotde LeonColumbusCortes
- 35. Multiple Choice
____ was given publicity for the first European to find North America. _____ was the first true European to find North America.
Leaf Erikson; Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus; Leaf Erikson
- 36. Multiple Choice
Which water body is F?
Ocean
Sea
Strait
Gulf
- 37. Multiple Choice
What water body is G?
Ocean
Sea
Strait
Gulf
- 38. Multiple Choice
What is the water body H?
Gulf
Sea
Strait
Ocean
- 39. Multiple Choice
What is the water body J?
Strait
Sea
Ocean
Gulf
- 40. Multiple Choice
What is the water body Z?
Sea
Strait
Ocean
Gulf
- 41. Multiple Choice
A body of water that cuts into the land that directly connects to a larger body of water often with a wider opening.
Gulf
Bay
Harbor
Strait
- 42. Multiple Choice
A narrow passage of water connecting two seas or larger bodies of water
Atoll
Valley
Strait
Isthmus
- 43. Multiple ChoiceWho discovered Hawaii?Capt. James CookMarkChickenCow
- 44. Multiple Choice
Why was Prince Henry known as “the Navigator?”
Henry owned a globe when many people thought the world was flat.
helped unlock the secrets of Africa
he helped make it possible for the first Europeans to explore Africa.
Henry believed that Africa was not infinite and that if his sailors could circumnavigate the continent;
- 45. Multiple Choice
Henry also employed cartographers. What is a cartographer?
a visionary
a sailor
map maker
go around
- 46. Multiple Choice
Who wrote sailing directions?
Matthew Maury
Captain James Cook
Prince Henry Navigator
Ferdinand Magellan
- 47. Multiple Choice
Who invented the chronometer (clock)?
Matthew Maury
Captain James Cook
Prince Henry Navigator
John Harrison
- 48. Multiple Choice
Who was known for having strong and fast ships?
Portuguese
Chinese
Vikings
British
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