Marine Science 1 Unit 1 Review

What is the first step of the scientific method?

• Make an observation

• Ask a question

• Form a hypothesis

• Do an experiment

What should a hypothesis be?

• Testable, specific, and IF/THEN statement

• IF/THEN statement

• A guess about what's not gonna happen

• The standard for why you are doing your experiment

What is the scientific method used for?

• To double check their ideas

• To make money and become famous

• To test ideas, questions, inferences, predictions about the world around us

• To get into college

True or False: Scuba diving has medical risks involved such as hypothermia and decompression sickness.

• True

• False

Which is not a branch of oceanography?

• Geological

• Archeological

• Biological

• physical

Who is credited with the first practical scuba gear in 1943?

• Matthew Maury

• Augustus Siebe

• Jacques Cousteau

• Charles Darwin

Who is credited with inventing the latitude and longitude system?

• Pytheas

• Eratosthenes

• Ptolemy

• Pythagorus

Sonar is the use of _____________ to "see" in the ocean.

• light

• sound

• cameras

• lasers

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-2

The Chinese contributed which of the following to medieval marine science?

• the compass

• improved sails

• motorized engines

• the first maps of the Atlantic

Who is considered the 'Father of Oceanography'?

• Charles Wyville Thompson

• Matthew Maury

• Charles Darwin

• James Cook