OCN: MID-TERM Exam

Who were the first sailors to reach and settle in Iceland, Greenland, and North America?

• Vikings

• Phoenecians

• Polynesians

• Greeks

The captain of the first voyages made purely for the scientific study of the oceans was

• Cook

• Harrison

• Behaim

• Toricelli

Polynesians:

• sailed in the Mediterranean
• sailed in the North Atlantic
• Were the earliest known open ocean seafarers
• were the first to circumnavigate the world

A parallel is another name for a ______ _______. The 0^o is called the _____.

• a latitude line, the equator
• a longitudinal line, the prime meridian
• a latitudinal line, the prime meridian

A meridian is another name ____. the The 0^o meridian runs through_______________.

• a latitude line, the equator
• a longitude line, Greenwich England
• a longitude line, the widest  part of the earth

Published the Physical Geography of the Sea , called the "Father of Oceanography"

• Charkes Wilkes
• Matt Maury
• Ben Franklin

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This explorer was also the inventor of the chronometer that allowed navigators to know exactly where they were

• Captain James Cook

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Charles Darwin

• John Harrison

Who was the first explorer to sail around the world?

• James Cook
• Christopher Columbus
• Ferdinand Magellan
• Vasco de Gama

What important contributions did the Challenger expedition NOT make to oceanography?

• discovered deep-water organisms
• discovered 5,000 new species
• took the first soundings below 4,000 m
• discovered Greenland

The largest ocean on Earth is the....

• Pacific

• Arctic

• Atlantic

• Antarctic