1.1 An Introduction to Marine Science

Which civilizations were actively exploring and inventing during the Middle Ages?

• Greeks & Phoenicians

• Chinese & Vikings

• Vikings & Greeks

• Europeans & Chinese

Who was the first to describe the formation of coral reef atolls?

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Charles Darwin

• James Cook

• Jacques Cousteau

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Who is considered the 'Father of Oceanography'?

• Charles Wyville Thompson

• Matthew Maury

• Charles Darwin

• James Cook

Why was the HMS Challenger expedition so iconic?

• set new ocean research standards

• collected data in a systemic and precise way

• collected and catalogued thousands unknown species

• all of the above

Who invented SCUBA?

• Beebe & Barton

• Cousteau & Gagnan

• Cook & Banks

• Walsh & Piccard

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Who is the Greek philosopher who was the first to develop an animal classification system and identified nearly 500 new marine species (The 'first' marine biologist')

• Pytheas

• Aristotle

• Hipparchus

• Euclid

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What is the name of the famous marine lab in Massachusetts?

• Scripps Institute

• Marine Biological Lab at Woods Hole

• Rosenstiel School

• Friday Harbor

Marine laboratories play a vital role in both marine and basic biological research.

• True

• False

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Match the famous explorer or scientists to their contribution to marine science

• led first scientific expedition (1786)

• Ferdinand Magellan

• naturalist who sailed to Galapagos

• James Cook

• "discovered" the "New World" in 1492.

• Charles Darwin

• developed scuba breathing system

• Jacques Cousteau

• led first expedition around the world

• Christopher Columbus

When approximately did people begin exploring the ocean for scientific purposes and not just for trade and colonization?

• late 1700s

• 3000 BCE

• late 1900s

• early 1400s