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WorksheetsIntro to Oceanography
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
Which ancient Egyptian scientist calculate the circumference of the earth to within 200 km of the true value?
King Tut
The Phoenicians
Ptolemy
Eratosthenes
Who were the first European explorers to set foot in the Western hemisphere and who led them?
Vikings- Ferdinand Magellan
Vikings- Leif Eriksson
Vikings- Amerigo Vespucci
Italians- Christopher Columbus
What was the main reason so many explorers set out during the Age of Discovery?
The land they inhabited was running out of supplies
They were in search of gold
There was competition between Portugal and Spain
They needed answers to weather patterns
Who mapped the Hawaiian islands?
Isaac Newton
James Cook
Fridtjof Nansen
Jacques Cousteau
Who dove the deepest in the ocean?
Jacques Cousteau on Calypso
Piccard and Walsh on Trieste
Robert Ballard on ALVIN
Sylvia Earle on Deep Rover
The Gulf Stream was first charted by who?
Ben Franklin
Robert Ballard
James Cook
Nathaniel Bowditch
1924, German ship, The Meteor was sent for scientific purposes but also secretly tried to do what?
Attack island nations to take plunder and gold
Submerge ships safely around ocean ridges
Conceal their ship from neighboring echo sonars
Find an inexpensive way to separate gold from ocean water
Centripetal force makes the earth...
bulge out at the poles
have a bumpy texture
bulge out at the equator
have more land masses in the northern hemisphere
One degree of latitude is equal to
60 nautical miles
60 kilometers
one degree longitude
60 knots
What continent is 30 degrees south, 120 degrees east in?
Africa
Asia
Australia
South America
Vertical lines going from pole to pole are called--
Equator
Latitude
Circumference
Longitude
Seasonal changes occur on Earth because...
the Earth moves in an elliptical orbit around the sun
the Earth's axis is tilted 23.5 degrees off vertical
the Earth is slightly egg shaped
solar flares affect Earth's weather
