The Oceans - Chapter 1: Brief History of Oceanography

Question 1

Who is credited with publishing the “first textbook of oceanography” called The Physical Geography of the Sea?

Answer 1

Matthew Fontaine Maury

Question 2

What ship made the historic 3.5 year voyage in December 1872 to comprehensively study oceans?

Answer 2

HMS Challenger

Question 3

Before the Challenger explored the oceans and dredged them at depth, there was a term ____ that meant without life

Answer 3

azoic zone

Question 4

What was a creation that helped take more accurate measurements of salinity and temperature that was developed by the sailor of the Fram

Answer 4

Nansen bottle

Question 5

What was important about the voyage of the German ship Meteor?

Answer 5

It had the advantage of equipment like the Nansen bottle and the echo sounder

Question 6

What is an echo sounder

Answer 6

a revolutionary electronic depth sounding piece of equipment

Question 7

The echo sounder apparatus works by transmitting sound waves from the ship toward _____

Answer 7

ocean bottom

Question 8

What information from the echo sounder helps a scientist calculate precisely the depth

Answer 8

the velocity of the sound waves in water

Question 9

JOIDES resolution is the name of a ____ ship

Answer 9

drilling