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Oceanography

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- 1What is marine geologythe study of the ocean floor
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- 2Who made the first world mapPtolemy
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- 3Who circumnavigated the globeFrancis Drake/ Magellan
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- 4What ship collected data on new speciesHMS Challenger
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- 5What was the technology that allowed divers to stay underwater longerScuba gear
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- 6When Darwin was aboard the HMS Beagle, he researched what islandsGalapagos
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- 7What crust is older, Continental or OceanicContinental
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- 8Who started the Continental Drift TheoryAlfred Wegener
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- 9What theory states that entire the surface of the Earth moves, not just the continentsPlate Tectonics Theory
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- 10Thick layers of sediment built up at the base of a slope are called whatContinental Rise
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- 11What is the Abyssal PlainFlat plain on the ocean floor
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- 12The name for flat-topped seamounts on the ocean floorGuyots
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- 13what bonds form between other water moleculesHydrogen bonds
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- 14The pond skater is an insect that can run across water. What property allows thisSurface tension
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- 15what property of water lets it freeze on the top, but the water underneath is unfrozenSpecific heat
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- 16Warm water is denser than cold water, True or FalseFalse
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- 17When the Earth rotates and causes bending over its surface at a 45-degree angleCoriolis Effect
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- 18Ekman Transport states that water set in motion by wind is ___ degrees to the right or left of the original surface wind90-degrees
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- 19What is DNA made ofNucleic acids
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- 20Simple sugar used by animals and plants for energyGlucose
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- 21The pigment that gives plants their green colorChlorophyll
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- 22Organisms that can’t produce their own foodheterotroph
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- 23What is the smallest unit of lifeCell
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- 24Osmosis is the movement of water from ____ concentration to ____ concentrationHigh, Low
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- 25Diatoms have cell walls made of whatSilica
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- 26an _____ species is an organism that isn't native to an ecosystem and causes harmInvasive
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- 27Mariculture is the farming of what marine plantSeaweed
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- 28What is the only “true” marine plantSeagrass
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- 29Which algae is the most abundantRed Algae
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- 30Chemoautotrophs make food from chemicals in the water, True or FalseTrue
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- 31Adult sponges are ______, meaning they are attached to a surfaceSessile
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- 32One example of a boneless fishHagfish, Lamprey
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- 33Name three of the fins on a sharkpectoral, pelvic, dorsal, anal, caudal
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- 34Sharks have a _________ skeletonCartilage
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- 35Name one type of shark fertilizationOviparous, Ovoviviparous, Viviparous
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- 36What allows sharks to detect vibrations in waterLateral line
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- 37What does the Ampullae of Lorenzini dodetects electrical signals
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- 38True or False: All cnidarians have a medusa and a polyp stageFalse
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- 39What symbiotic relationship do most marine worms have with other animalsParasitism
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- 40In a squid, what internal structure supports its mantlePen
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- 41True or False: True crabs are male if their abdomen is V-shapedTrue
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- 42All echinoderms have what specific type of symmetryPentaradial symmetry
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