Marine Science Exam Complete Solutions New Update
List the steps in order, of the scientific method - Answers -Statement
Hypothesis
Materials
Procedure
Observation
Analysis
Conclusion
Define dependent - Answers -what is affected by a change in the independent variable
Define Independ...
Marine Science Exam Complete
Solutions New Update
List the steps in order, of the scientific method - Answers -Statement
Hypothesis
Materials
Procedure
Observation
Analysis
Conclusion
Define dependent - Answers -what is affected by a change in the independent variable
Define Independent - Answers -The condition that is changed in an experiment
Define Controlled - Answers -any experimental conditions that remain constant
What did the Phoenicians do? - Answers -1200-126 A.D. Known for being excellent
sailors and Navigators. Had a lot of trade going on.
What did Ptolemy do? - Answers -In 127-151 A.D, he produced the first world atlas and
established boundaries
What did Posidonius do? - Answers -135-50 B.C. Measured the Ocean depth at about
1800 meters near the island of Sardine
What did Pliny the Elder do? - Answers -A.D 23-79. Related phases of the moon to the
tides and recorded currents moving through straits if a Giberator
What did Erik the Red do? - Answers -sailed west from Iceland in 982 and found
Greenland
What did Leif Erikson do? - Answers -Son of Erik the Red. Sailed west from Greenland
in 1002. Reached America 500 years before Columbus.
What did Prince Henry do? - Answers -established a naval observatory.
What did Columbus do? - Answers -Four voyages. Underestimated Earth's size.
What did Waldseemuller do? - Answers -named the continent of america and was a
cartographer
What did Vespucci do? - Answers -made several voyages to the New World. Explored
10,000km of South American coastline
, What did Galilei do? - Answers -Mass, weight and acceleration
What did Newton do? - Answers -Wrote Principia in 1687. Law of gravity
what did Cook do? - Answers -founder of oceanography and founded the Hawaiian
islands in 1778
What did Franklin do? - Answers -Made a chart of Gulf stream currents.
What caused improvement to be made to oceanography equipment historically? -
Answers -World events such as space technology and war.
What is the Big Bang theory? - Answers -cataclysmic explosion that caused the
universe to rapidly expand and cool as it grew 14 billion years ago.
How does the Big Bang theory relate to the days of creation? - Answers -It goes
completely against creation and that God created the universe. in both water still
happens towards that beginning.
What is the significance of the Hubble Telescope? - Answers -gives visual observations
of Earth and Space. deployed in 1990
What percentage if Earth is covered in water? - Answers -71%
What temperature is the earth? - Answers -61°F
What is the Geologic Time Scale? - Answers -system of chronological measurements
related to time.
How is relative age different from absolute age? - Answers -Relative age is determining
the order of past events (of an object compared to another). Absolute age is
determining an approximate computed age in geology.
What direction does longitude measure? - Answers -east and west
What direction does latitude measure? - Answers -north and south
Define latitude - Answers -distance north and south of the equator
Define longitude - Answers -Distance east and west of the prime meridian
Define Prime Meridian - Answers -meridian at 0° longitude, used as the origin of
measurements for longitude
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