Science test Flashcards

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if a scuba diver ascends to the surface too quckly afer a deep dive oxygen bubbls can form in his blood cause the bends

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false

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the remanians of he odes known boat were found on the desert in kuwait

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true

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3
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the bible teaches that no one explored oceans before the Flood

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true

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4
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early cartographers often used pcitures of sea monster to hid the fact that they did not know what wa in certain parts o fhte ocean

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true

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5
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which of these inventions idthe most to make ocean navigation more accurate lead lines the nasne bottle seagoing clocks the secchi disk

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seagoing clocks

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only Europeans did any singifcant occean exploration proior to 1800

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false

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accoridn to the text what was a signficant movitvator fo rthe age of exploration

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the thrill of discorery and vision of getting rich

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who was the first to circumnavigate the world

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ferdinand magellan

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9
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the challenger expedition covred three oceans and lasted foru years

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true

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the first ture oceanraphic expedition a model for future studies was conductied by which vessel

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HMS Challendger

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who was insiperd by the Psamlsm to make accurate wind adn current charts earning hims himsledl th enickname pathfinder of the seas

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matthew fantane maruey

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locations of ocean current would more effectivly be studied through larege area smaplig

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true

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13
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a sounding will reveal the water’s what

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depth

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14
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what measures ocean depth through echolocation

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sonar

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what replaced the sued of lead lines to determine water depth

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sounding or

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16
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what collects water smaples a t various depths

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nansen bottles

17
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what measues surface water clarry

18
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photocells are more accurate and more widlely used than secchi disks today

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what collects pelagic organismsl

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what collects benthich organsims

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a bottom profiler is used to scrape sediemtns adn pecimens from the sea floor and bring them to the surface

22
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what collects layers of sediment fro the ocean floor

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sediment corer

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sonar mimics a technique used by proposes and bats

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sonar did little to improve man’s understanding of the ocean baisn

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what collects and transmits a varity of weaterh and sea data
buoys
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today wide area date collection of ocean conditions is performed by what two things
buoys and satellite
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the greaest challenge to working underwtaters is having air to breathe
true
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what is the ggreatst challendge to helmt diving
easy to drown
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what was the earliest know enclosures used to explore underwater called
driving bells
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what is the personal underwater breating system developed in 1943 and used widly todayc called
scuba
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puto these in order mixed gas diving, suba ding bell diring helmet
diving bell, diving helmet , scuba, mixed gas diving
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mixed gas diving is typically used for what
Deep Dving
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what was consturcte william beebe and otsi barton
bathysphere
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what was an ealy type of deep sea submersible
bathyscaphe
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which of these was the first vesssel to dwscent into chllenger deep the deepest point know in teh oceans bathyscaphe bathyspher or treist
trieste
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the united states and france are the only nations to have built and launched deep submergence vehiclles
false
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in what ways does a nROV differ from a DsV rovs are guide by computter prgrams rovs are usuall larger than dsvs rovs are teheted to and controlled by another vessle
rovs are thetherd to and ontrolled by anotehr vessel
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which of these tpes of vessels is not an unamenned undersea vehicle (UUV) AUV DSV ROV
ROV
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which of tthese types of vessels i best suited for complicated repair work at at single location AUV DSV HMS ROV
ROV