Marine Science 2 Honors
Semester 1 Course Review
1. What are hydrogenous calcium carbonate deposits and how are they formed?
2. How does the respiration from marine animals and bacteria affect the oxygen levels beyond the sunlit layer?
3. How do carbon dioxide levels change at different depths?
4.What is the relationship between pH and carbon dioxide levels?
5. What the processes allow for the carbon present in sediments to re-enter back into atmospheric and oceanic
cycles?
6.
What is the average pH of the ocean?
7.
What is another name for undercurrents?
8.
What is a Slocum glider and how does it receive power?
9.
What is Acoustic tomography and how is it being used to gain new information regarding deep sea
circulation?
10.
How do Gravity, wind, and the Coriolis Effect affect surface currents?
11.
Why do ENSO events heavily impact fisheries?
12.
Describe how Thermohaline circulation is responsible for the large-scale global ocean circulation?
13.
What is a gyre?
14.
Where does the largest amount of upwelling occur and why is it important?
15.
How long does it take most deep water to rise to the surface?
16.
What direction would a gyre in the Southern Hemisphere flow towards? How about the Northern
Hemisphere?
17.
Why is the extraction of wind so effective over or near the ocean?
18.
What is the best tool to finding solutions for environmental problems.
19.
How long does it take for many plastics to decompose? What about Glass?
20.
What happens to their symbiant zooanthellae when corals exceed their normal temperatures for too long
of a period of time?
21.
What is the cause and the effects of the deadly viral epidemic among dolphins in the western
Mediterranean?
22. What is the propensity for a substance to resist temperature changes?
23. Why is the ozone layer important?
24. What percentage of marine pollutants originates from human activities on land?
25. What could happen if global warming were to continue?
26. How do human birth control methods affect fish populations?
27. What gases are considered Green House Gases?
28. How are Estuaries impacted by pollutants?
29. Describe what happened with the cargo vessel full of shoes and how scientist used the information they
gathered from this event.
30. What is the global conveyer belt and how does it affect the ocean?
31. How are gyres categorized?
32. How has the Gulf Stream changed since the 1950s?
33. Why are people so heitant to accept the idea of global energy change?
34. Why are pregnant women told to avoid certain types of seafood?
35. How do pollutants change the quality of Water?
36. What have been some of the causes of the increased amount of oil found in the ocean?
37. What is a biodegradable pollutant?
38. What are some of the dangers corals have to face right now?
39. Why does the ocean not boil or freeze solid in different regions of the world?
40. What is the relationship between latitude and ocean characteristics?
41. What determines an organism’s response to a particular pollutant?
42. Compare Aquaculture and mariculture.
43. What are some of the most profitable segments of mariculture?
44. How much of the world's oceans are protected?
45. What effects does tourism have on the marine ecosystems of the area?
46. Why do scientists exchange information?
47. Why would a scientist use the scientific name of an organism instead of its common name?
48. If a scientist was studying the effects of pollution on the marine ecosystems what would be a plausible
hypothesis?
49. What types of variables can be found in an experiment?
50. What is science?
52. What are the steps of the scientific method?
53. How many variables should there be in an experiment?
54. In a hypothesis that is if, than because, the “because” is important why?
55. Why are mathematical models important in science?
Honors Extension
56. Who is Rachel Carson and why is she important to the idea of conservationalism?
57. How does the aquarium industry support natural habitats?
58. What were the effects of DDT?
59. What can be done to improve aquaculture and off shore fish farming?
60. What are some of the best and worst choices from the SeaWatch list for Sea Food?