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WorksheetsOceanography Unit 1: Intro to Oceanography
Total questions: 47
Worksheet time: 24mins
Who were the first to start ocean exploration?
English
Lapita
Romans
Greeks
How old is the first primitive bacteria discovered?
3 bya
3.5 mya
3 mya
3.5 bya
What did the Polynesians used to navigate the oceans?
Compass
North Star
Southern Cross
Big Dipper
Protoearth was ________ than Earth today.
smaller
greener
the same
larger
The largest of the ocean basins, which currently covers more than half of the ocean surface, is the ___________.
Arctic Ocean
Atlantic Ocean
Indian Ocean
Pacific Ocean
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 _____________.
Pytheas
Eratosthenes
Herodotus
Ptolemy
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 _______.
Pytheas
Erathosthenes
Herodotus
Ptolemy
Most of the explorations by northern and western Europeans during the Middle Ages were undertaken by _______.
Italy
Portugual
Vikings of Scandinavia
Spain
The European " Age of Discovery" began with __________.
Christopher Columbus' discovery of the "New World"
Ferdinand Magellan's circumnavigation of the globe
Phoenician exploration of the Mediterranean
Viking voyages of North America
Which of the following was not a ship of Captain James Cook's?
Adventure
Discovery
Endeavour
Resolution
What is scurvy?
Vitamin A deficiency
Vitamin B deficiency
Vitamin C deficiency
Vitamin D deficiency
Which explorer was not known in the Age of the Discovery in Europe?
John Cabot
Leif Eriksson
Vasco de Gama
Ferdinand Magellan
The first recorded circumnavigation of Africa was made by the _______.
Phoenicians
Greeks
Chinese
Polynesians
Which of the following Vikings is credited with discovering Greenland?
Erik Thorvaldson
Bjarni Herjolfsson
Leif Eriksson
Thor Heyerdahl
What Viking started the colony Vinland?
Erik Thorvaldson
Thor Heyerdahl
Leif Eriksson
Bjarni Herjolfsson
Who sailed from Europe around the tip of Africa to India and established a new trade route?
Giovanni Caboto
Ferdinand Magellan
Juan Sebastian del Cano
Vasco de Gama
Who is credited with being the first European to see the Pacific Ocean?
Ferdinand Magellan
Juan Sebastian del Cano
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
James Cook
Who was killed in the Philippines during his last sea voyage after a skirmish with local people?
Prince Henry the Navigator
Giovanni Caboto
Ferdinand Magellan
James Cook
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?
Giovanni Caboto
Ferdinand Magellan
Juan Sebastian del Cano
Vasco da Gama
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 ________.
nebula
solar system
protoplanet
supernova
The separation of the Earth into layers while it was molten was the result of the ________.
decrease in temperature downward toward the core
gravitational force created by the rotating Earth
differing densities of the elements that make up the Earth
initial collection of materials and their position in Earth
Oceanic crust is primarily ________.
basalt
clay minerals
granite
carbonate sedimentary rocks
What is the main rock type of continental crust?
Granite
Diorite
Basalt
Quartzite
Which later of the Earth behaves in a plastic manner?
Crust
Lithosphere
Asthenosphere
Outer Core
Which layer of the Earth is composed of a liquid?
lithosphere
asthenosphere
mesosphere
Outer core
Evidence suggest that the Sun and the rest of the solar system formed about five _________ years ago.
billion
million
thousand
trillion
Which of the following was true about the Protoearth?
Smaller than today's Earth
Had one large Ocean
Had early primitive life forms
Deep structure was larger
How did the Moon form?
The Moon formed due to the impact of a Mars-sized body with the Earth.
The moon was captured by the gravitational pull of the Earth.
The Moon erupted from the Earth leaving a scar at the Pacific Ocean
The Moon formed at the same time as the Earth due to simultaneous accretion.
Which of the following is Earth's rigid layer that includes the crust plus the topmost portion of the mantle?
Asthenosphere
Inner Core
Lithosphere
Mesosphere
Which of the following is Earth's liquid iron-nickel layer?
Asthenosphere
Inner Core
Lithosphere
Outer Core
Which of the following is Earth's solid iron-nickel layer?
Asthenosphere
Inner Core
Lithosphere
Mesosphere
Earth's primordial atmosphere most likely included __________.
ammonia, oxygen, carbon dioxide, and water vapor
carbon dioxide, water vapor, sulfur dioxide, and methane
hydrogen, helium, and oxygen
nitrogen, ozone, and sulfur dioxide
Current scientific knowledge indicates that the most likely origin of most of Earth's oceans was due to _______.
comets from outer space
release of liquid water from the core
water vapor released from volcanic outgassing
water-bearing minerals found in meteorites
Which of the following was not abundant in the early atmosphere?
Carbon dioxide
Oxygen
Hydrogen
Water Vapor
Earth's initial atmosphere formed from ______.
leftover gases from the nebula
the Sun's solar wind
outgassing
comet vaporization
One of the reasons that free oxygen in our atmosphere is important to the development and maintenance of life on Earth is because oxygen ________.
combines with iron in volcanic rocks
can form ozone and block some UV radiation
is necessary for photosynthesis to occur
reduces atmospheric temperature
Earth's atmosphere became oxygen-rich about ____ years ago
2.0 bya
2.45 bya
3.0 bya
3.45 bya
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?
3.0 bya
3.1 bya
3.2 bya
3.3 bya
An organism's response to environmental changes are called ___________.
adaptation
natural selection
evolution
mutations
When did Miller and Urey conduct their lab experiment that had major implications about the development of life on Earth?
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
Oxygen comprises about ______ % of the Earth's present atmosphere.
20
30
40
50
According to the fossil records on Earth, the earliest - known life - forms were primitive _________.
bacteria
plants
shells
reptiles
The most likely place for the basic building blocks for the development to life to interact and produce life is in Earth's __________.
oceans
mantle
lithosphere
atmosphere
Stanley Miller's 1952 experiment created ________ from the chemical ingredients thought to exist in Earth's early ocean.
simple organic compounds
complex organic molecules
DNA
primitive bacteria
The very earliest forms of life probably _______.
required an external food supply
manufactured their own food supply by photosynthesis
manufactured their own food by chemosynthesis
were similar to present- day anaerobic bacteria
The great oxidation even resulted in the massive die - off of which of the following?
anaerobic bacteria
blue-green algae
dinosaurs
land plants
The Earth is approximately
6,000 yrs old
4.6 billion years old
4.6 million years old
40 billion years old
