Chapter 1 | Introduction to Marine Ecology

Question 1

Acts as an enormous solar-powered engine

Answer 1

Ocean

Question 2

Main source of food

Answer 2

Marine organisms

Question 3

The ecology of the earth is the _____ of the seas

Answer 3

Ecology

Question 4

It covers the largest portion of the Earth’s surface

Answer 4

Sea

Question 5

The study of the ocean and their phenomena, such as waves, currents, and tides

Answer 5

Oceanography

Question 6

The study of the living organisms that inhabit the seas and their interactions with each other and their environment

Answer 6

Marine Biology

Question 7

One of the first to develop a scheme of classification

Answer 7

Aristotle

Question 8

A Greek philosopher that develop a classification called “ladder of life”

Answer 8

Aristotle

Question 9

A french naturalist

Answer 9

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

Question 10

he is an anatomist

Answer 10

Georges Cuvier

Question 11

When did the HMS beagle set sailed on a 5-year voyage exploration?

Answer 11

In December 1831

Question 12

In 19th century, an English naturalist that proposed the idea that living organisms could not survive in the cold and darkness of the ocean depths

Answer 12

Edward Forbes

Question 13

A ship or a research vessel containing state-of-the-art equipment and research facilities

Answer 13

HMS Challenger

Question 14

lasted for 3 ½ years and was named after the research vessel HMS Challenger

Answer 14

Challenger Expedition

Question 15

Father of the theory of evolution by natural selection

Answer 15

Charles Darwin

Question 16

He is the early marine biologist

Answer 16

Charles Darwin

Question 17

Gave birth to the modern sciences of marine biology and oceanography

Answer 17

The Challenger Expedition

Question 18

The date when the Challenger returned to England

Answer 18

May 1876

Question 19

In 1887, he began the first of several expeditions he would
direct to investigate the organisms of the sea.

Answer 19

Alexander Agassiz

Question 20

He noted that the most brightly colored animals were
found in surface waters and that, as one proceeded deeper, brilliant colors gave way to blues and
greens and ultimately reds and blacks. He theorized that the colors were related to the absorption
of different wavelengths of light at different depths, a theory later proved correct.

Answer 20

Alexander Agassiz

Question 21

Founder of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University

Answer 21

Louis Agassiz

Question 22

Father of Alexander Agassiz

Answer 22

Louis Agassiz

Question 23

He founded the first marine biology in the United States in July 1873

Answer 23

Louis Agassiz

Question 24

A Norwegian and an Englishman that led the expedition in the Arctic and Antarctic seas.

Answer 24

Fridtjof Nansen and Sir Alistair Hardy

Question 25

He was interested in reaching the magnetic North pole as well as charting the waters around the Pole.

Answer 25

Fridtjof Nansen

Question 26

He was interested in
the biology of whales for the purpose of commercial exploitation, and it was this interest that took his expeditions to the Antarctic Sea.

Answer 26

Sir Alistair Hardy

Question 27

It is the deep-sea submersible

Answer 27

Alvin