Quiz 3 Flashcards
The ocean originated from:
volcanic gases, radioactive heating of the Earth’s interior, and a barrage of icy comets or asteroid striking an melting the outer layers of the Earth.
Which of the following best describes biosynthesis?
The evolution of living organisms from simple organic building blocks.
The first life forms on Earth arose:
more than 3.5 billion years ago.
Why does London have a mild climate?
The Gulf Stream carries warm water towards it.
Contributions by early Chinese scientists and philosophers include all of these EXCEPT:
development of the chronometer.
The scientist who first charted the Gulf Stream in 1769 was:
Benjamin Franklin.
The Portuguese explorers who first attempted to circumnavigate the world in the early 1500’s was:
Magellan.
A(n) ____ is a graphic representation that depicts information about the ocean and the ocean features including depth.
Chart.
In the DVD demonstrating the scientific method Alfred Wegner proposed that continents drifted. He was not an oceanographer. He was a(n):
meteorologist.
In the DVD on the possible origins of life the experiment conducted by Stanley Miller subjected a mixture of atmospheric gases and water to an electric spark. He formed
amino acids, chemical building blocks of life.
