Oceanography Unit 1: Intro to Oceanography

Who were the first to start ocean exploration?

• English

• Lapita

• Romans

• Greeks

How old is the first primitive bacteria discovered?

• 3 bya

• 3.5 mya

• 3 mya

• 3.5 bya

What did the Polynesians used to navigate the oceans?

• Compass

• North Star

• Southern Cross

• Big Dipper

Protoearth was ________ than Earth today.

• smaller

• greener

• the same

• larger

The largest of the ocean basins, which currently covers more than half of the ocean surface, is the ___________.

• Arctic Ocean

• Atlantic Ocean

• Indian Ocean

• Pacific Ocean

The method of determining latitude in the Northern Hemisphere by measuring the angle between an observer's line of site to the North Star and line of site to the northern horizon was developed by _____________.

• Pytheas

• Eratosthenes

• Herodotus

• Ptolemy

The first person we are aware of who determined the circumference of the Earth using trigonometry and the angle of sunlight at Alexdandria, Egypt, was _______.

• Pytheas

• Erathosthenes

• Herodotus

• Ptolemy

Most of the explorations by northern and western Europeans during the Middle Ages were undertaken by _______.

• Italy

• Portugual

• Vikings of Scandinavia

• Spain

The European " Age of Discovery" began with __________.

• Christopher Columbus' discovery of the "New World"

• Ferdinand Magellan's circumnavigation of the globe

• Phoenician exploration of the Mediterranean

• Viking voyages of North America

Which of the following was not a ship of Captain James Cook's?

• Adventure

• Discovery

• Endeavour

• Resolution