Missed Quiz Bowl Questions

Question 1

When was the first recorded voyage by sea?

Answer 1

7250 BCE

Question 2

The circumference was first accurately calculated by who?

Answer 2

Eratosthenes

Question 3

Who were highly accomplished seamen who participated in exploration and trade in the north Atlantic?

Answer 3

Vikings

Question 4

What European explorer discovered Florida?

Answer 4

Juan Ponce de Leon

Question 5

Who created the first chronometer?

Answer 5

John Harrison

Question 6

Who was the first European to chart the Pacific Ocean?

Answer 6

James Cook

Question 7

What is Charles Darwin known for in relation to Oceanography?

Answer 7

Study of Coral Reefs

Question 8

The Greek word graphia refers to what?

Answer 8

The act of recording and describing

Question 9

The root of a word, -ology means what?

Answer 9

The study of

Question 10

By the 4th century BCE who had traveled as far north as the coast of England?

Answer 10

Pytheas

Question 11

The fetch refers to __________

Answer 11

the distance over which wind blows without interruption

Question 12

Lines of equal temperature are called what?

Answer 12

Isotherms

Question 13

To develop successfully the embryo of pacific cod require what?

Answer 13

A narrow temperature range

Question 14

Most marine fish have cellular fluid with salinity ______

Answer 14

Lower than the salinity of sea water

Question 15

Fresh water fish have body fluids that are _____

Answer 15

More saline than the surrounding water

Question 16

What does SST stand for?

Answer 16

Sea Surface Temperature

Question 17

Primary production in the temperate latitudes varies with ______

Answer 17

Season

Question 18

What is a baby eel called?

Answer 18

elver

Question 19

Do all salmon spawn once and die?

Answer 19

No

Question 20

Are plants primary producers?

Answer 20

Yes

Question 21

Are all animals heterotrophs?

Answer 21

Yes

Question 22

Ecosystems operate by exchanging what two things?

Answer 22

Energy and matter

Question 23

What bacteria breaks down organic material and causes the absence of oxygen?

Answer 23

Anaerobic

Question 24

What are the two principle types of upwelling?

Answer 24

Equatorial and Coastal

Question 25

What determines the speed of a fish?

Answer 25

Shape, Size, and Build

Question 26

Potential biomass production decreases with increasing _____ in the food chain?

Answer 26

Trophic level

Question 27

What is the part of land that touches the sea and changes location with tide?

Answer 27

The beach

Question 28

Refraction of waves can result in a decrease of what?

Answer 28

Strength

Question 29

Barrier islands are composed of what?

Answer 29

Sediment

Question 30

What are estuaries?

Answer 30

Region where fresh water meets salt water

Question 31

What are salt wedge estuaries?

Answer 31

Estuaries where the mouth of the river directly meets the ocean, creating a sharp barrier between saltwater and freshwater

Question 32

A partially mixed estuary has a weaker what?

Answer 32

Halocline

Question 33

Environmental diversity in estuaries favor a what food system?

Answer 33

Triphosphate

Question 34

Coral reefs thrive best on what kind of water?

Answer 34

Clear, clean water

Question 35

Where do gas hydrates occur?

Answer 35

Marine sediments within or beneath permafrost

Question 36

Where do sand and gravel generally occur?

Answer 36

Near the shore as terrigenous sediments

Question 37

Where do manganese nodules form?

Answer 37

Seabed sediment, often partially or completely buried

Question 38

Do mangrove swamps provide natural protection from storm surges and coastal flooding?

Answer 38

Yes

Question 39

Seabird decline in Scotland was a classic example of what?

Answer 39

Trophic cascade

Question 40

New Orleans' hurricane susceptibility is mainly caused by what?

Answer 40

Low elevation and human destruction of wetlands

Question 41

Can seaweed grow on the aphotic zone?

Answer 41

No

Question 42

The concentration of what ion determines the ph of water?

Answer 42

H+

Question 43

Carbon dioxide and water form what?

Answer 43

Carbonic Acid

Question 44

What controls the rate at which the oceans absorb CO2?

Answer 44

Ocean Acidity

Question 45

Where is salinity the highest?

Answer 45

20-23 degrees north and south

Question 46

What increases salinity?

Answer 46

Evaporation, formation of sea ice

Question 47

Name the four layers of the atmosphere from lowest to highest.

Answer 47

Troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere

Question 48

The standard atmospheric pressure at sea level is what?

Answer 48

14.7 psi or 1013.25 millibars

Question 49

The Coriolis effect results from what?

Answer 49

Lower rotational velocities at higher latitudes

Question 50

What decreases ocean salinity?

Answer 50

Precipitation, runoff, rivers, and melting sea ice