A | B |
3 reasons for early sea exploration | food, find new land, trade |
Oceans influence the weather and _______ | climate |
Is most of the ocean explored? | no, only a small part |
How have humans affected the oceans negatively? | over-fishing, pollution |
The first recorded sea voyage was by ______; and took place around 3200 B. C. | the Egyptians |
Who were the earliest open ocean (beyond the site of land) explorers? | The Polynesians |
What is the importance of the longitude & latitude system? | gives you your exact location |
How were James Cook's voyages different than those before him? | They had science and exploration as their only goals. |
The _____ says that the universe began froma single point. | Big Bang Theory |
The atmosphere adn oceans only formed after the earth had _____. | cooled enough |
According to ___ life began in the ____. | fossil record, oceans |
What is a heterotroph? | needs to consume other organisms for energy |
What is an autotroph? | makes its own food |
Which one is a ocean zone? | pelagic |
Which is the bottom of the ocean? | benthic, nekton |
Describe cellular respiration | the changing of sugar into usable energy |
A wide variety of organisms that float at or near the surface of the ocean. | plankton |
Provides most of the primary productivity in the ocean | phytoplankton |
List the characteristics of dinoflagellates | they have one or two flagella |
What is a limiting factor? | a nutrient that affects survival. |
From the inside out, the layer of the earth are: | inner core, outer core, mantle, crust |
How do sedimentary form? | organic and inorganic particles are compressed and cemented together |
Pangea | the name of the theorized early supercontinent |
Panthalassa | Name of the ocean that surrounded the supercontinent |
Divergent | plates moving apart |
convergent | plates moving together |
convection | primary force of plate movement |