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Oceanography Unit 1: Intro to Oceanography

Total questions: 47

Worksheet time: 24mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who were the first to start ocean exploration?

a)

English

b)

Lapita

c)

Romans

d)

Greeks

2.

How old is the first primitive bacteria discovered?

a)

3 bya

b)

3.5 mya

c)

3 mya

d)

3.5 bya

3.

What did the Polynesians used to navigate the oceans?

a)

Compass

b)

North Star

c)

Southern Cross

d)

Big Dipper

4.

Protoearth was ________ than Earth today.

a)

smaller

b)

greener

c)

the same

d)

larger

5.

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

a)

Arctic Ocean

b)

Atlantic Ocean

c)

Indian Ocean

d)

Pacific Ocean

6.

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 _____________.

a)

Pytheas

b)

Eratosthenes

c)

Herodotus

d)

Ptolemy

7.

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 _______.

a)

Pytheas

b)

Erathosthenes

c)

Herodotus

d)

Ptolemy

8.

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

a)

Italy

b)

Portugual

c)

Vikings of Scandinavia

d)

Spain

9.

The European " Age of Discovery" began with __________.

a)

Christopher Columbus' discovery of the "New World"

b)

Ferdinand Magellan's circumnavigation of the globe

c)

Phoenician exploration of the Mediterranean

d)

Viking voyages of North America

10.

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

a)

Adventure

b)

Discovery

c)

Endeavour

d)

Resolution

11.

What is scurvy?

a)

Vitamin A deficiency

b)

Vitamin B deficiency

c)

Vitamin C deficiency

d)

Vitamin D deficiency

12.

Which explorer was not known in the Age of the Discovery in Europe?

a)

John Cabot

b)

Leif Eriksson

c)

Vasco de Gama

d)

Ferdinand Magellan

13.

The first recorded circumnavigation of Africa was made by the _______.

a)

Phoenicians

b)

Greeks

c)

Chinese

d)

Polynesians

14.

Which of the following Vikings is credited with discovering Greenland?

a)

Erik Thorvaldson

b)

Bjarni Herjolfsson

c)

Leif Eriksson

d)

Thor Heyerdahl

15.

What Viking started the colony Vinland?

a)

Erik Thorvaldson

b)

Thor Heyerdahl

c)

Leif Eriksson

d)

Bjarni Herjolfsson

16.

Who sailed from Europe around the tip of Africa to India and established a new trade route?

a)

Giovanni Caboto

b)

Ferdinand Magellan

c)

Juan Sebastian del Cano

d)

Vasco de Gama

17.

Who is credited with being the first European to see the Pacific Ocean?

a)

Ferdinand Magellan

b)

Juan Sebastian del Cano

c)

Vasco Nunez de Balboa

d)

James Cook

18.

Who was killed in the Philippines during his last sea voyage after a skirmish with local people?

a)

Prince Henry the Navigator

b)

Giovanni Caboto

c)

Ferdinand Magellan

d)

James Cook

19.

Who left Spain in September 1519 and became the first person to complete a circumnavigation of the globe when he returned to Spain three years later?

a)

Giovanni Caboto

b)

Ferdinand Magellan

c)

Juan Sebastian del Cano

d)

Vasco da Gama

20.

The Sun and the rest of the solar system formed about 5 billion years ago from a huge cloud of dust and gas called a ________.

a)

nebula

b)

solar system

c)

protoplanet

d)

supernova

21.

The separation of the Earth into layers while it was molten was the result of the ________.

a)

decrease in temperature downward toward the core

b)

gravitational force created by the rotating Earth

c)

differing densities of the elements that make up the Earth

d)

initial collection of materials and their position in Earth

22.

Oceanic crust is primarily ________.

a)

basalt

b)

clay minerals

c)

granite

d)

carbonate sedimentary rocks

23.

What is the main rock type of continental crust?

a)

Granite

b)

Diorite

c)

Basalt

d)

Quartzite

24.

Which later of the Earth behaves in a plastic manner?

a)

Crust

b)

Lithosphere

c)

Asthenosphere

d)

Outer Core

25.

Which layer of the Earth is composed of a liquid?

a)

lithosphere

b)

asthenosphere

c)

mesosphere

d)

Outer core

26.

Evidence suggest that the Sun and the rest of the solar system formed about five _________ years ago.

a)

billion

b)

million

c)

thousand

d)

trillion

27.

Which of the following was true about the Protoearth?

a)

Smaller than today's Earth

b)

Had one large Ocean

c)

Had early primitive life forms

d)

Deep structure was larger

28.

How did the Moon form?

a)

The Moon formed due to the impact of a Mars-sized body with the Earth.

b)

The moon was captured by the gravitational pull of the Earth.

c)

The Moon erupted from the Earth leaving a scar at the Pacific Ocean

d)

The Moon formed at the same time as the Earth due to simultaneous accretion.

29.

Which of the following is Earth's rigid layer that includes the crust plus the topmost portion of the mantle?

a)

Asthenosphere

b)

Inner Core

c)

Lithosphere

d)

Mesosphere

30.

Which of the following is Earth's liquid iron-nickel layer?

a)

Asthenosphere

b)

Inner Core

c)

Lithosphere

d)

Outer Core

31.

Which of the following is Earth's solid iron-nickel layer?

a)

Asthenosphere

b)

Inner Core

c)

Lithosphere

d)

Mesosphere

32.

Earth's primordial atmosphere most likely included __________.

a)

ammonia, oxygen, carbon dioxide, and water vapor

b)

carbon dioxide, water vapor, sulfur dioxide, and methane

c)

hydrogen, helium, and oxygen

d)

nitrogen, ozone, and sulfur dioxide

33.

Current scientific knowledge indicates that the most likely origin of most of Earth's oceans was due to _______.

a)

comets from outer space

b)

release of liquid water from the core

c)

water vapor released from volcanic outgassing

d)

water-bearing minerals found in meteorites

34.

Which of the following was not abundant in the early atmosphere?

a)

Carbon dioxide

b)

Oxygen

c)

Hydrogen

d)

Water Vapor

35.

Earth's initial atmosphere formed from ______.

a)

leftover gases from the nebula

b)

the Sun's solar wind

c)

outgassing

d)

comet vaporization

36.

One of the reasons that free oxygen in our atmosphere is important to the development and maintenance of life on Earth is because oxygen ________.

a)

combines with iron in volcanic rocks

b)

can form ozone and block some UV radiation

c)

is necessary for photosynthesis to occur

d)

reduces atmospheric temperature

37.

Earth's atmosphere became oxygen-rich about ____ years ago

a)

2.0 bya

b)

2.45 bya

c)

3.0 bya

d)

3.45 bya

38.

How old were the microfossils of bacteria from the deep-water marine rocks that support the idea of life's origin on the deep-ocean floor?

a)

3.0 bya

b)

3.1 bya

c)

3.2 bya

d)

3.3 bya

39.

An organism's response to environmental changes are called ___________.

a)

adaptation

b)

natural selection

c)

evolution

d)

mutations

40.

When did Miller and Urey conduct their lab experiment that had major implications about the development of life on Earth?

a)

1940s

b)

1950s

c)

1960s

d)

1970s

41.

Oxygen comprises about ______ % of the Earth's present atmosphere.

a)

20

b)

30

c)

40

d)

50

42.

According to the fossil records on Earth, the earliest - known life - forms were primitive _________.

a)

bacteria

b)

plants

c)

shells

d)

reptiles

43.

The most likely place for the basic building blocks for the development to life to interact and produce life is in Earth's __________.

a)

oceans

b)

mantle

c)

lithosphere

d)

atmosphere

44.

Stanley Miller's 1952 experiment created ________ from the chemical ingredients thought to exist in Earth's early ocean.

a)

simple organic compounds

b)

complex organic molecules

c)

DNA

d)

primitive bacteria

45.

The very earliest forms of life probably _______.

a)

required an external food supply

b)

manufactured their own food supply by photosynthesis

c)

manufactured their own food by chemosynthesis

d)

were similar to present- day anaerobic bacteria

46.

The great oxidation even resulted in the massive die - off of which of the following?

a)

anaerobic bacteria

b)

blue-green algae

c)

dinosaurs

d)

land plants

47.

The Earth is approximately

a)

6,000 yrs old

b)

4.6 billion years old

c)

4.6 million years old

d)

40 billion years old