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Problems on the Oceanography - Final Exam | NR 150, Study notes of Oceanography
Oceanography Final Material Type: Notes; Professor: Chamberlain; Class: Oceanography; Subject: Natural Resources; University: Colorado State University; Term: Fall 2010;
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Elaborate Oceanography Final study guide Includes The fifteen guaranteed test questions for each test All Quiz questions All Test answers (carefully outlined) o Including last 2 sections specific for final
EXAM 1
- James Cook is the man who is considered the “father of oceanography”
- Iron is the most abundant element constituent of the earth
- Sea Level fluctuations are known to have occurred throughout time from the presence of beaches, cliffs, and other erosional surfaces.
- The oldest fossils are apparently cyano-bacteria in the Apex crust of Australia and over 3. billion years old.
- Geomor phology is the study of the forms on the ocean floor that are the result of land movement and erosion.
- The mid-Atlantic Ridge is an example of a divergent boundary.
- The age of the sea floor increases with increasing distance from a mid-ocean ridge.
- The plastic layer found at the depths of approximately 100km to 300km in the earth is called Asenthosphere.
- At the present time, Juvenile water is being added to the oceans primarily from degrassing of the earth’s interior.
- Based upon radioactive dating of the earth rocks and meteorites, the present accepted age of the earth is 4.6 billion years.
- Matthew Fontaine Maury is one of the greatest oceanographers and was an American who in his capacity was head of the US NAVY DEPOT of charts and Instruments. Organized a world-wide oceanographic data collection system that is still in operation today.
- Earth’s internal thermal energy is the source of energy which drives mantle convective flows and plate movement.
- The different concentration of marine life is found associated with waters of coastal upwelling.
- The difference between the continental shelf slope and rise is that they manly differ in slope and depth.
- The conversion of the homogenous proto-earth to the highly differentiated earth of today occurred in the first billion years of earth history. Quiz Questions 1. Greatest concentration of marine life are found associated with: waters of coastal upwelling 2. The result of the challenger expedition 1872-1876: all the above 3. Hydrothermal deep-sea vents (black smokers) are associated with: all of the Above 4. The deep sound channel in the ocean corresponds closely with the: sound speed minimum 5. With the development of a strong El Nino condition in the Southeastern Pacific Ocean: All the above 6. A large wave created by the displacement of the seafloor by an earthquake, volcanic eruption or submarine landslide is properly called: Tsunami 7. When waves reach shallow waters they become: shorter and higher 8. Bacteria: have cell walls composed of polysaccharides and amino acids 9. The important planktonic herbivores, the copepods, belong to which phyla of animals: Arthropoda
- The phylum ciliophora of the protozoa include the important zooplankters tintinnids
- Harmful algal blooms(red tides) that produce toxins affecting humans are dinoflagellates.
- The kingdom plantae (Meta Phyta) is represented in the ocean by grasses of man groves
- Primary productivity can be measured from satellites by sensors that detect chlorophyll concentrations.
- An atoll may be best described as a coral reef surrounding a lagoon
- Diatoms produce frustules (Shells) composed of silicon dioxide
- Living organisms that consist of single celled no nucleus and no internal membranes are called prokaryotes. TEST ANSWERS Test 2 (154-160Pg.)
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