Marine Science Unit 1 Vocab Review

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• CTD

• Submersible that is tethered to a boat; needs a human to control it from the surface

• REMUS

• Submersible that is not tethered to a boat and can be programed to carry out a mission on its own

• AUV

• An underwater camera that is used primarily for surveying and mapping. A type of AUV.

• ROV

• Bottles to collect water are arranged in a circular rosette; used to take samples of water at different depths

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NGSS.MS-ETS1-1

NGSS.MS-ETS1-2

NGSS.MS-ETS1-3

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• Matthew Maury

• deep ocean scientist who discovered hydrothermal vents, pioneered the JASON project

• Edith Widder

• "Father" of physical oceanography

• Robert Ballard

• oceanographer explorer and researcher interested in bioluminescence

• Prince Henry the Navigator

• Established a center at Sagres, Portugal for the study of marine science and navigation

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

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• Chinese

• inhabitants of Pacific islands that lie within a triangle formed by Hawaii, New Zealand, and Easter Island

• Vikings

• seafaring Scandinavian raiders who ravaged the coats of Europe @ 780-1070 A.D.

• Polynesians

• established the first trade routes through the Mediterranean

• Phoenicians

• invented first compass, central rudder and air-tight compartments

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• Christopher Columbus

• Officer in the British Royal Navy who led the first European voyages of scientific discovery on the HMS Endeavor

• James Cook

• Explorer, researcher, photographer, co-inventor of SCUBA

• Jacques Cousteau

• Italian explorer in the service of Spain who discovered island in the Caribbean in 1492

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• Ferdinand Magellan

• An English biologist and the co-discoverer of evolution by natural selection

• Benjamin Franklin

• Portuguese navigator in the service of Spain who led the first expedition to circumnavigate the Earth

• Charles Darwin

• Known for compiling observations of ocean currents off the east coast and studies the Gulf Stream

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• compass

• An instrument for showing direction by means of a magnetic needle

• magnetometer

• Detects disturbances in Earth's magnetic field

• cartographer

• A person who makes maps and charts

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• United States Exploring Expedition

• First U.S. oceanographic research voyage, collected specimens formed the basis of the Smithsonian

• HMS Challenger

• German Atlantic expedition begun in 1925, first to use an echo sounder

• Meteor expedition

• First wholly scientific oceanographic expedition, 1872-76

• Challenger Expedition

• Expedition that traveled to all seven continents; discovered and collected a variety of marine life

Matching

• Deepsea Challenger

• ROV used to study hydrothermal vent communities

• Jason/Medea

• Submersible built by James Cameron

• Trieste

• First manned vessel to reach the bottom of the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

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• Multi-bean echo sounder

• Free drifting instrument used to collect data

• sediment corer (piston, gravity, vibra-)

• used to detect seismic activity on the seafloor

• ocean bottom seismometer

• tubes that are plunged into the seafloor to extract samples of mud

• Floats (Alace, Palance, Solo)

• A device that reflects sound off the ocean bottom and records the time it takes to travel back

• Nootka Buoy

• Serves as a Wi-Fi hotspot in the Pacific