Oceanography Exam Review

What people established early settlements in Greenland?

• Polynesian

• Europeans

• Vikings

• Celtics

Charted the Pacific ocean and located Hawaii.

• Captain Hook

• Captain Cook

• Captain Megellan

• Captain Drake

What the first European to discover the New World (North America)?

• Megallan

• Columbus

• Cook

• Cabot

First to circumnavigated the world's oceans

• Megallan

• Cook

• Drake

• Columbus

Invented the equipment for SCUBA.

• Ballard

• Costeau

• Cameron

• Earle

Developed map using latitude for countries like Africa, Europe, and Asia.

• Erastothenes

• Ptolemy

• Alexander

• Constantine

What group of people settled the South Pacific islands and used navigational methods to find new islands.

• Native Americans

• Polynesians

• Africans

• Asians

The steepest part of the continental margin is the:

• break

• slope

• rise

• shelf

What land features are associated with deep-sea trenches?

• volcanic islands

• island arcs systems

• andesitic volcanoes

• all of the above

As you go higher and higher in the troposphere the temperature

• decreases

• increases

• stays the same