Spring 24 Oceanography Final Exam

What voyage embarked in 1872 on a 3 year mission to collect marine specimens and data?

• HMS Challenger

• HMS Trieste

• HMS Beagle

• HMS Bismarck

Scherbatsky’s branch of oceanography examines seismic events on the seafloor, such as earthquakes occurring at plate boundaries. Her work relates to which branch of oceanography?

• Chemical

• Geological

• Marine Biology

• Physical

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Which of the following tools might have greatly helped Hensen as he studied microscopic ocean organisms?

 

• corer

• Nansen bottle

• plankton net

• current meter

The branch of oceanography concerned with pH and salinity. 

• physical

• geological

• marine biology

• chemical

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-2

HOV stands for High Occupancy Vehicle. 

• True

• Not True

• Not Sure

Dr. Tribbiani's research focuses on a type of tide associated with rare moon occurrences. His work relates to which branch of oceanography? 

• Mechanical

• Chemical

• Geological

• Physical

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

How did the world's oceans form?

• As the Earth slowly cooled, water vapor in the second atmosphere condensed to the its surface as water

• As the Earth slowly cooled, water vapor in the first atmosphere condensed to the surface as water

• As the Earth slowly cooled, photosynthetic anerobes were able to produce oxygen, which combined with available hydrogen to form water

• As the Earth slowly cooled, photosynthetic aerobes were able to produce oxygen, which combined with available hydrogen to form water

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-6

How are hydrothermal vents formed?

• cold seawater seeps into cracks in oceanic crust, becomes superheated, and deposits minerals as it exits the crust

• cold seawater seeps into cracks in the ocean crust, cools, and create additional ocean crust at mid-ocean ridges

• hot seawater seeps into cracks in oceanic crust, chemically reacts with minerals in the magma chamber, and deposits minerals as it exits the crust

• hot seawater seeps into the magma chamber, creating fissures in the oceanic crust which chemically reacts with minerals to form deposits

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Which of the following correctly orders the oceans by greatest size to smallest size?

 

• Pacific, Atlantic, Arctic, Indian

• Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic

• Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic

• Indian, Atlantic, Arctic, Pacific

Which of the following geological provinces of the ocean is described as an extensively large, flat home on the ocean floor?

• continental shelf

• abyssal plain

• sea mount

• guyot