19-20 Oceanography

Why is oceanography an interdisciplinary study?

• You are required to have all the degrees before studying oceanography.

• It involves different fields of science such as biology, chemistry, physics, and even astronomy.

• You need to study English, history, and math before you can understand the ocean.

• Without discipline the mind falters.

• All of the above.

In the dreariest deepest depths of the ocean one theory states that life began near __________________________.

• sun spots

• where darkness lay, so can light appear

• underwater caves

• hydro-thermal vents

• did we talk about this? I was not paying attention

____________________ of oil are extracted from the Golf Coast per day.

• 6.8 million barrels

• 1.8 million barrels

• 16.8 million barrels

• 1.0 billion barrels

• Tons

Below the sunlit surface waters lies the _____________________.

• city of Atlantis

• megalodons

• twilight zone

• currents

• none of the above

Otters were nearly hunted to extinction before the ______ century.

• 18th

• 19th

• 20th

• 21st

• 17th

Otter populations have recovered to be in the _______.

• tens

• fifty range

• hundreds

• thousands

• millions

Otters consume up to ______ of their body weight in food.

• a quarter

• a third

• a fifth

• half

• all

Why do we know so little about the twilight zone?

• It only ran for five seasons.

• It's difficult to study and exceedingly large.

• Everything we send to it disappears.

• Nothing can reach it.

• None of the above.

When should you check Focus for your current grade in Earth Space Science?

• 'I'll get to it tomorrow'

• the week before fall break

• the week before winter break

• when Mr. Espinosa expresses disappointment in me

• all the time from the beginning of each quarter

Why do sting rays take their time in choosing a spider crab to eat?

• sting rays are picky with their food

• it was looking for recently molted crabs

• it was overwhelmed by the possibilities

• it was looking for the biggest spider crab

• it was looking for the smallest spider crab