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What is convection correct answers Cold air sinks because it is more dense What is the lithosphere correct answers The top part of the mantle and all crust, on top of asthenosphere In SoCal our plate boundary is... (list plate, boundary and rise) correct answers Pacific plate, transform bound...

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Oceanography 101 Exam 1 || with 100% Accurate Solutions.
What is convection correct answers Cold air sinks because it is more dense

What is the lithosphere correct answers The top part of the mantle and all crust, on top of
asthenosphere

In SoCal our plate boundary is... (list plate, boundary and rise) correct answers Pacific plate,
transform boundary, east pacific rise

Why is San Francisco in the same location correct answers It must be East of the San Andreas

What will happen to Western California correct answers It will move more northwest

Where on Earth can you stand above sea level on a Mid-Ocean Ridge? correct answers Iceland

Geographic example of oceanic-continental convergent with subduction zone? correct answers
The cascades

What percent of the Earth's surface is below sea level? correct answers 70%

What type of crust is thicker? continental or oceanic correct answers Continental

What type of crust is denser? continental or oceanic correct answers Oceanic

Why does oceanic lithosphere at ridges rise higher than at trenches? correct answers because it is
less dense (trenches are deep and have more water)

What type is the continental margin at San Francisco? correct answers Active, transform
boundary

Which ocean has the thickest layers of sediments? correct answers Atlantic

What's Loihi? correct answers A seamount to the southeast of Hawaii

Where are deep sea trenches found? correct answers convergent boundaries

What is science based on? correct answers The world is understandable with explanations built
up to create laws and theories

Define Science correct answers a systematic process of asking questions about the observable
world by gathering and then studying information (data)

Scientific method: (list) correct answers -poses questions
-examines
-refines Qs

, -creates hypothesis
-tests hypothesis
-conclusions

-structure of ideas, concepts, and frameworks that explain wide range of observations

Define Hypothesis correct answers A speculation about the natural world that can be tested and
verified or disproved by further observations and controlled experiments

List the steps of the scientific theory correct answers 1) question
2)Hypothesis
3)experiment
4)Data
5)Analysis
6)conclusion

Define Parsimonious correct answers uses the simplest explanation to solve a problem
-the simplest explanations are often correct

What are the fields in oceanography and how are they used within oceanography? What are
examples? correct answers -Geology:Plate Tectonics, determining Earth's/Ocean's ages
-Biology: To understand sea life (evolution by natural selection)
-Physics: The current and waves, law of gravity, relativity of time and space
-Astronomy: The creation of solar system, big bang theory
-Chemistry: How the ocean is salty (salinity)
-Engineer: Sonar, satellites (tools to help examine the ocean) submersibles

What are the earth's four spheres correct answers -atmosphere (air)
-hydrosphere (water)
-biosphere (life)
-lithosphere (rock, outer layer/crust)

What's a cross-sectional view? correct answers view from side as if feature were cut along a
vertical plane

Block diagram correct answers three dimension view

Map view correct answers view from above (like an orange that you peel and lay out)

Mercator projection correct answers map projection that is faithful to the middle of the earth but
distorts the polar regions

What are the five oceans and which one is the largest and the deepest? Why? which is the
shallowest and why correct answers -Pacific is the largest
-then Indian ocean
-Arctic ocean and Antarctic is the smallest

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