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OCNG 251 Exam 1 ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT Answers Arctic Ocean - CORRECT ANSWER- Smallest and Shallowest Ocean Pacific Ocean - CORRECT ANSWER- World's Largest and Deepest Ocean Atlantic Ocean - CORRECT ANSWER- Second-Largest Ocean Indian Ocean - CORRECT ANSWER- Exists mostly in the Souther...

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OCNG 251 Exam 1 ACTUAL Questions
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Arctic Ocean - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Smallest and Shallowest Ocean



Pacific Ocean - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔World's Largest and Deepest Ocean



Atlantic Ocean - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Second-Largest Ocean



Indian Ocean - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Exists mostly in the Southern Hemisphere



Antarctic or Southern Ocean - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Connects Pacific, Atlantic, and
Indian South of about 50 degrees S latitude


what percentage of Earth is covered by ocean? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔70.8%



Ocean Contains what percentage of surface water? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔97.2%



Average depth of Ocean - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔3729 m (12,234 ft)



Average elevation - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔840 m (2756 ft)



Deepest part of Ocean - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Mariana Trench 11,022 m (36,161 ft)



Trading - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Allowed people in 450 BC to have an understanding of
what the world looked like.


Eratosthenes - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Determined circumference of the Earth within 1%
of today's measurement

,Phoenicians - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Mediterranean Sea, around Africa, British Isles



Greeks - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Pytheas reached Iceland 325 B. C.
Ptolemy map 150 A.D.


Vikings - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Explored North Atlantic Ocean
Leif Eriksson (994 A.D.) raft
Greenland, Vinland settlements abandoned by 1450 A.D.


Pacific Islanders - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔traveled long distances because small island
were widely scattered


The Age of Discovery - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔1492-1522



Goal in Age of Discovery - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔To search for new Easter trade routes
by sea


Portugal trade routes around Africa - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Prince Henry the Navigator



Europeans explore North and South America - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Columbus, and
Cabot


Magellan and del Cano - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Circumnavigate the world



Map of the world 1570 - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔better established idea of what the world
looked like, but southern part of the world was still confused


Determination of Latitude - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔The angle formed by the horizon and
the North Star measures our Latitude (Pytheas 325 BC)


John Harrison - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔carpenter, developed clock

, mid 1700's


Benjamin Franklin - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔pocket watch



Captain James Cook - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔(1728-1779), ships included HMS
Endeavor, Resolution, and Adventure
- Mapped Islands in Pacific
- Measured Ocean characteristics
- Marine Chronograph (longitude)


Scientific Inquiry - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Natural phenomena governed by physical
processes, Scientists make predictions based of of processes


Scientific Method - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Observation, Hypothesis, Testing, Theory



Darwin's Finches - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Finches developed different beak styles based
on the area they lived in because of evolution.


Challenger Expedetion - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔(1872-76) first large-scale oceanography
expedition
measured (sea life, chemistry,physics, depths)
4700 new species


what determined that the ocean floor is not flat? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Manganese
Nodules


Discovery Expeditions - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔1925-1939, 1950-1952



ALVIN - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔finds hydrothermal vents



Satellite altimetry - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔helps to measure depths of ocean by Satellite

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