INTRODUCTION TO OCEANOGRAPHY

Question 1

What is Oceanography?

Answer 1

Study of the ocean, its surroundings, and life within it

Question 2

Difference of Oceanography from Marine Biology

Answer 2

Marine biology: marine organisms ONLY

Question 3

What is Geological Oceanography?

Answer 3

study of ocean basins and how they were formed, properties of rocks such as magnetism, and occurrence of earthquakes

Question 4

What are the Earth’s Oceans?

Answer 4

Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic and Antarctic

Question 5

Function of the Earth oceans

Answer 5

moderate the Earth’s temperature by absorbing solar radiation

Question 6

What are the 7 seas of Earth?

Answer 6

North Pacific, South Pacific, North Atlantic, South Atlantic, Indian, Arctic, and Antarctic

Question 7

Deepest depth found in Pacific?

Answer 7

Mariana Trench at 11,035 meters

Question 8

How did the islands of Hawaii form?

Answer 8

Geological processes from Hotspots

Question 9

How are ocean basins formed?

Answer 9

Plate tectonics