Marine Biology
Chapter 1 and 2 Test Study Guide
Chapter 1: The Science of Marine Biology
Science =
What is Marine Biology?
Why Study Marine Biology?
What resources do we get from the sea? How do we use the sea?
History of Marine Biology (see your Prezi notes)
Know contributions to Marine Sciences from:
Egyptians
Phoenicians
Greeks
Vikings
Arabs
Chinese
James Cook
Edward Forbes
HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin
Wilkes Expedition
HMS Challenger
Modern Marine Biology and Research Tools (see your Prezi notes)
USS Atlantis
HMS Challenger II
Marine Laboratories, Woods Hole & Scripps
Hardsuit Diving, advantages of
SCUBA =
GPS =
ROV=
AUV=
Difference between AUV and ROV
Remote Sensing and satellites
Chapter 2: The Sea Floor
Oceans:
4 Oceans-Names, locations, characteristics
They cover _______ of Earth
Formation of Universe and Earth
Layers of Earth, characteristics of each
Magnetic field caused by…
Earth as a Water Planet, why just right…
Continental vs. Oceanic crust
Test: Wednesday Sept 3rd, 2014
Plate Tectonics:
The Theory of
Alfred Wagener
Pangea, when broke up?
Panthalassa
Evidence of Plate tectonics and continental drift
Magnetic anomalies
Sea-floor spreading
Mid-ocean ridges
Lithosphere and Asthenosphere
Plates, types and differences
Convergent
Divergent
Transform/Shear
What happens at boundaries at plates, know some examples
Know some names of Plates
How do they move, at what speed
SONAR =
Trenches
subduction zones
Subduction
Geological History of the Earth
Types of sediment, made of what?
Radiolarians, Foramaniferans
Earth’s past climate—determined how?
Sea level changes
Geological Provinces of Ocean:
Regions of Sea Floor
Continental Margins and Sea Floor
Regions of continental margins, and their characteristics, be able to label a diagram
Continental Shelf
Continental Break
Continental Rise
Abyssal Plain and features
Guyots =
Seamounts=
Hydrothermal vents and Black smokers =
Passive and Active Margins, characteristics and examples of each
Format:
Diagram, labeling oceans and/or regions of continental margins
Multiple choice
Fill in the blanks
True/False
Short answers
Paragraph responses