| A | B |
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| Marine Biology | the study of organisms that live in the sea |
| Leik Eriksson | Discovered Vineland (Now North America) 955 ad |
| Columbus | Discovered North America in 1492 |
| James Cook | fire European to view the North Pole |
| Charles Darwin | Naturalist; mapped coastlines |
| Edward Forbes | studied the sea floor |
| Charles Thompson | Challenger; wrote books |
| Remote Sensing | Satellites are uses to view large expanses of ocean at the surface |
| Sonar | use to map seafloor depths |
| SCUBA | used for exploration of oceanic environmental for longer peiods of time and at deeper deapths |
| ROV (Remotely Operated Vehicles)) | allows for direct exploration of marine environment when scuba is not an option |
