Unit 5 Oceanography

Who holds the record for the deepest dive in history?

• Jacques Cousteau on Calypso

• Sylvia Earle on Deep Rover

• Robert Ballard on ALVIN

• Piccard and Walsh on Trieste

Mapped the known world and accurately calculated the circumference of the earth to within 200km

• Posidonius

• Eratosthenes

• Aristotle

• Ptolemy

Scientist created the first world atlas but incorrectly calculated the earth’s circumference

• Eratosthenes

• Aristotle

• Ptolemy

• Plato

The first European explorer to cross the Atlantic and set foot in the western hemisphere was

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Leif Erikson

• Christopher Columbus

• Amerigo Vespucci

Competition between which 2 countries led to the great voyages of the late 15th century?

• Spain and Portugal

• Spain and France

• Spain and England

• England and France

Developed the law of universal gravitation which explained the process that governed the tides

• Johannes Kepler

• Galileo Galilei

• Edmund Halley

• Sir Isaac Newton

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J.Cook made 3 voyages to chart the Pacific in the late 18th century on behalf of which country?

• United States

• England

• France

• Spain

The first chart of the Atlantic Gulf Stream current was developed by _____

• Captain James Cook

• Benjamin Franklin

• Nathaniel Bowditch

• Robert Ballard

Fridtjof Nansen is known for

• developing the first accurate charts of the Western Pacific

• freezing his ship to chart the currents of the Arctic

• being killed by natives in the Hawaiian Islands

• discovering the location of the Titanic

German government sent the vessel Meteor on a research cruise that also had a secret mission

• Chart the coast of the United States for an invasion

• Establish a German claim to Antarctica

• Find a way to separate dissolved gold from seawater

• Scout the coast of Africa for possible German colonies