Quiz #1 History of MB and Topography Flashcards
Aristotle
Father of Marine Biology
Captain James Cook
Mapped the Pacific, New Zealand and Australia
Charles Darwin
Created the theory for Atolls
Sir Charles Wyville Thomson
Chief scientist on the challenger, discovered a wide variety of invertebrates and that deep sea temperatures are not constant indicating oceanic circulation
Edward Forbes
Came up with the Azoic Theory
The Challenger
First ship with laboratories and discovered Marians trench.
Station Biologique de Roscoff
French marine biology and oceanography research and teaching center
Spencer Fullerton Baird
Established the first fish commission
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Oldest and larges center for ocean research with several research vessels
William Beebe
First to use the bathysphere
Otis Barton
Invented the Bathysphere
Challenger Deep
Deepest part of the ocean in Marianas Trench
Trieste
Bathyscaphe that was the first to explore Marianna’s Trench
Rachel Carson
Created a nation wide ban on DDT/pesticides
Dr. Sylvia Earle
First female chief of the NOAA and researched algae
Dr. Robert Ballard
Discovered hydrothermal vents and numerous shipwrecks including the titanic
Jacques Cousteau
Invented the aqua lung
Dr. Hans Hass
Developed the first underwater diving equipment facilitating free movement on the ocean floor for longer period of time.
Continental rise
Piles of sediment at the bee of the slope
Continental Slope
Steep decent from the continental shelf
Continental shelf
part of a continent that extends out underneath the ocean. That starts at the shoreline
Seamounts
Under water mountains
Guyot
flat-topped seamount
Abyssal plain
a large, flat, almost level area of the deep-ocean basin covered in mud and tiny marine organisms
Mid Ocean Ridge
Underwater mountain ranges
Rift Valley
A lowland in the ground caused by seafloor spreading
Volcanic Islands
seamounts that reach the surface
Atolls
Island of coral that encircles a lagoon
