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| What percentage of the earth is covered by oceans? |
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| What percentage of surface water is in the oceans |
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| Which ocean is the largest and the deepest? |
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| Which ocean is the second largest? |
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| Which ocean is mainly in the southern hemisphere? |
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| Which ocean is the smallest, shallowest and ice covered? |
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| Which ocean connects the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian |
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| Antarctic or Southern Ocean (south of about 50 Deg. S latitude |
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| Sea is smaller and shallower, usually enclosed by land, salt water, directly connected to the world oceans. |
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| It is a sea in the north atlantic ocean surrounded by ocean waters |
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| What is the average depth of the ocean? |
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| What is the average elevation of land |
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| Where is the deepest ocean trench? |
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| Mariana Trench 11,022 m (36,161 ft) |
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| What is the highest mountain on land |
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| Mt Everest, 8850 m (29,935 ft) |
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| Who were the early explorers of the oceans? |
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| The phoenicians in 1500 B.C. |
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| When was the libary of Alexander founded? |
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| Where was the principles of celestial navigation invented? |
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| AT the LIbrary of Alexandria |
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| Who first calculated the circumference of the earth? |
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| Eratosthenes of Cyrene (40000 km),who was also the 2nd librarian at Alexandria |
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| Who invented the system of longitude and latitude? |
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| Who first catalogued marine organisms? |
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| Who related phaes of the moon to the tides and described the ocean current moving through the Straits of Gibraltar? |
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| Pliny the Elder (23-79 A.D.) |
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| Who produced the first world atlas? |
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| Who produced the first world atlas? |
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| What is the Polynesian colonies an example of? |
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| Knowledge of the oceans and marine science used to colonize vast number of islands. |
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| What did the Chinese invent that helped with sailing? |
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| The Compass, the central rudder, water-tight compartments and sails on multiple masts. |
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| What era were the vikings powerful? |
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| Pirates and Raiders, Farmers and explorers and colonizers. |
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| Where did the Vikings colonize? |
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Iceland, Greenland, Vinland (America)
They traveled from Iceland to Greenland with 25 boats and 600 people, 14 boats remained. |
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| What are the viking boats called? |
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| Knarrs - merchant ships. Longboats (drakkar) - warships. |
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| What did the Vikings use to navigate? |
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| Navigation table - needle in the center of table measured sun's height and bar around edge plotted ship's course |
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| Who first found North America? |
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| Bjarni Herjolfsson in 986 A.D. He was going from Iceland to Greenland and sailed too far SW and was the first Viking to see Newfoundland. However, he did not land there. He went to Greenland to meet his people. |
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| Who first set foot on N. America? |
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| Leifr Eriksson in 995 A.D. He was son of Eric the Red. Inspired by Bjarni, he set out to look for Vinland |
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| Who first colonized Vinland (America) |
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| Thorlinner Thordarson and Freydis Eriksdottir in 1015 A.D. |
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| First baby born in N. America (a boy) |
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| Who was Prince Henry the Navigator |
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| New World explorer - 3rd son of royal family of portugal. |
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| The viking who sailed west from iceland and discovered greenland. |
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| What were Prince Henry's contributions to navigation? |
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| Center for the study of marine science and navigation and sponsored voyages down the coast of Mauretania (primarily slaving expeditions). |
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| Who "discovered" north america? |
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| Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) while trying to find a western route to Asia. |
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| Who was Vespucci Amerigo? |
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| Italian navigator who explored the northern shore of S. America during 4 voyages. |
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| Who is American continent named after? |
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| Vespucci Amerigo (1454-1512) |
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| Who was Juan Ponce de Leon? |
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| Spanish explorer (1460-1521), born in San Servos, Leon. |
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| Where die Ponce de Leon explore? |
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| Florida and accompanied Coplumbus on his second voyage to America |
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| Who was Ferdinand Magellan? |
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| (1480-1521) Initiator and leader of the first expedition to circumnavigae the blobe (1519-21). |
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| (1728-1779) The first real scientific oceanography voyages were by him. |
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| What were the names of James Cook ships |
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| HMS Endeavour, Resolution, Adventure |
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| Where was Cook's first voyage? |
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| Who was the first European to land on Vancouver Island? |
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| Who coined the word oceanography? |
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| What was John Murray's contribution to oceanography? |
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| published 50 volumes and reports on the HMS Challenger voyage.. mid-atlantic ridge and oceanic trenches. Saharan desert deposits in deep ocean sediments. |
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| What are the 20th century explorations |
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| Meteor expedition (1925) first use of echo sounder. |
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| What wasthe first research ship built for ocean studies? |
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| U.S.S. ATLANTIS (1931) - confirmed MAR (METAMORPHISIC GRADE - ROCKS SWITCHING POLARITY). |
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| wHAT DID THE hms cHALLENGER DISCOVER? |
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| in 1951 - the deepest part of the ocean's deepest trenches. |
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| Global Marine, first deep sea drilling vessel, confirmed ages of sea floor sediments and sea floor spreading hypothesis -- evaporites in cores - first evidence that the Medt. Sea once dried up . Led to the JOIDES Resolution and eventually the Deep Sea Drilling Program. |
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| First oceanographic satellite, used radar, microwave, scanning multichannel microwave radiometer, infrared radiometer to measure height, wind, temperature, etc. |
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| Satellite Oceanography Measures sea surface topography. |
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