Science Chapter

Question 1

What is an underwater mountain range called?

Answer 1

Mid Ocean Ridge

Question 2

Level deep ocean floor?

Answer 2

Abyssal plain

Question 3

What is a floating observ station that automatically

Answer 3

Buoy

Question 4

Many niskin bottles

Answer 4

Rosette

Question 5

What is a plastic tube on a weighted line that lowered into the ocean

Answer 6

because it can go different depts collect from all diff depths

Answer 7

Expendable bathythermograph

Answer 8

(CTD)
Conductivity Temp. Depth Sensor

Question 9

research submersal consisting of a thick steel spherical crew compartment suspended from a float?

Answer 9

bathyscaphe

Question 10

device with an open tube that is dropped to the sea floor, allowing its weight to puncture the sediment?

Answer 10

gravity corer

Question 11

chart currents far beneath the surface?

Answer 11

profiling floats

Question 12

device that is plunged into sediments in the ocean floor to extract cores.?

Answer 12

Piston corer

Question 13

a sinking thermometer that transmits temperatures encountered at different levels back to a surface ship and is released once measurements are completed.?

Answer 13

expendable bathythermograph

Question 14

a highly maneuverable robot linked to a support ship by cables?

Answer 14

remotely operated vehicle (ROV)

Question 15

capable of operating without any outside guidance or help; usually designed to be lowered from a surface ship near the area to be studied?

Answer 15

autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV)

Question 16

What does scuba ‘‘stand’’ for?

Answer 16

self-contained underwater breathing apparatus

Question 17

invented the first successful self-contained breathing device that allowed for deeper dives?

Answer 17

Jacques Yves Cousteau and Emile Gagnan

Question 18

one of the best-known illnesses that divers can experience?

Answer 18

(DCS) decompression sickness