What caused the east-west distortion on early maps?
Answer: Difficulty in accurately measuring time
Answer: Difficulty in accurately measuring time
Answer: Accept any of the following: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA); National Ocean service (NOS); OR Department of Commerce
Answer: Arctic Ocean OR Arctic
Answer: Canada
Answer: The North Atlantic
Answer: Red Sea OR Gulf of Aqaba
Answer: Three
Answer: The difference (or correction) is called the magnetic declination.
Answer: One
Answer: Alaska
Answer: Niagara River OR Niagara
Answer: Great Barrier Reef
Answer: Arctic OR Arctic Ocean
Answer: Intertropical Convergence Zone
Answer: Calcareous AND siliceous
Answer: Seamounts
Answer: A forming volcano rises above the sea level and its top gets eroded as it is exposed to wave action above the sea surface
Answer: A basalt has smaller crystals OR is cooled more quickly than a gabbro. The difference lies in the crystal size resulting from different cooling rates.
Answer: Quaternary
Answer: Melting of large ice sheets at the end of the last ice age
Answer: Hadal (hey-dahl) zone
-Oceanic (Mid-Ocean ridge)
-Continental (rift valley)
Answer: Sea-floor spreading
Answer: Erosion
Answer: Elmo OR Saint Elmo
Answer: The HMS Discovery
Answer: National Marine Fisheries Service OR NMFS
Answer: The depletion, and ultimately the collapse, of a limited resource, such as fish stocks when individuals act selfishly to maximize personal gains
Answer: JOIDES Resolution (or just Resolution)
Answer: To contain or collect oil from surface waters
Answer: World Ocean Circulation Experiment OR WOCE
Answer: Harry Hess
Answer: It can disrupt upwelling in the Pacific by bringing warmer water to the coast that consequently affects fish species
Answer: The Trieste
Answer: Coordinated Universal Time or UTC
Answer: Yes, the AVHRR senses temperature by the infrared energy emitted passively from the ocean. Because passive infrared emissions are not dependent on visible solar illumination, SSTs can be determined at night.
Answer: 1 - magnetic compass, 2-astrolabe, 3- chronometer, 4- gyrocompass, 5- Global Positioning System (GPS)
Answer: Marine Chronometer
Answer: Water clarity or transparency
Answer: AT & T
Answer: Nautical astronomy
Answer: To measure the volume of water that passed through the net OR to determine the distance the net was towed
Answer: SWATH OR Small Waterplane Area Twin Hull
Answer: Conductivity (salinity), temperature, pressure (not depth)
Answer: Satellite navigation
Answer: The rebreather system requires much smaller gas supplies OR is less bulky
Answer: A reversing thermometer
Answer: Alvin
Answer: Electric propulsion/power does not depend on combustion so it is air-independent. Also acceptable: it is more compact
Answer: Carbonate and Bicarbonate
Answer: Accept any 2 of the following: Photosynthetic production of oxygen; injection of air bubbles during storm mixing; water has warmed, oxygen content has not resumed equilibrium
Answer: pH will decrease
Answer: Accept any 2 of the following: River inputs, Atmospheric inputs (dust, fixed nitrogen from lightning), In-situ nitrogen fixation, Underwater volcanoes, Nitrification
Answer: The pH increases
Answer: Convection
Answer: Hydrogen bonding between water molecules
Answer: Accept any of the following: Power plant exhaust, Automobile emissions, Sewage treatment plant, Stormwater Runoff, CAFO (concentrated animal feeding operations) OR Flooding
Answer: parts per thousand by weight or gram/kilogram
Answer: In high latitudes, oxygen dissolves into surface cold waters which subsequently sink and become bottom water of the ocean basins. (Note to Judge: Need to say high latitude and or cold)
Answer: Capillary waves increase the roughness (hence increase the surface area for wind contact) of the ocean surface
Answer: As pressure (or depth) increases, sound velocity increases
Answer: Stadials (STEY -dee-uhls) AND Interstadials
Answer: Photosynthesis
Answer: These are areas where cold, nutrient-rich waters are bought up from the depths and essentially fertilize the surface waters.
Answer: Dorids (or Doridoidea) AND aeolids (or Aeolidioidea)
Answer: Accept any of the following: they recycle nutrients; they are decomposers; they are a food source for any other organisms
Answer: Mutualism
Answer: They reproduce sexually (This is the ONLY right answer)
Answer: By releasing toxins which are ingested by the OR by using up all the oxygen in water, so that the fish die from lack of oxygen (either answer is acceptable)
Answer: Sunlight, grazing (consumption by herbivores), Nutrient /trace element availability
Answer: Aerenchyma
Answer: Halophyte
Answer: 10
Answer: Fin Whale or Fin
Answer: Accept any 2 of the following: Paralytic shellfish poisoning, amnesic shellfish poisoning, neurotoxic shellfish poisoning, diarrhetic shellfish poisoning
Answer: Accept any 2 of the following they may carry diseases; they may compete with natives; they may have no natural predators; they may consume important native species
Answer: Collapse of the bubble created by the shrimp's claw. (Must say that there is a bubble collapse)
Answer: Accept any 2 of the following: dessication, temperature variation, salinity extremes, high wave energy, sun exposure, predation, log battering, or ice sour
Answer: The endosymbiotic alga, zooxanthallae (ZOO-zan-theh-lay) in the animals need light for photosynthesis.
Answer: Intensity of the workout
Answer: Maximum heart rate
Answer: Heart rate
Answer: How long your exercise session is
Answer: How hard you work
Answer: The number of times per week you exercise
Answer: Specificity
Answer: It may cause overuse injuries in unfit people over the long-term
Answer: The best exercise programs promote health and are fun
Answer: Exercise creates mood swings
Answer: Reduced self-esteem
Answer: Decreased insulin sensitivity
Answer: It increases HDL and decreases LDL
Answer: High-density lipoproteins (HDL)
Answer: It can result in substantial weight gain due to increase in muscle mass
Answer: Daily calorie expenditure
Answer: Planned, structured, and repetitive
Answer: The ability of joints to move through their full range of motion
Answer: Ability to resist fatigue and sustain a given level of muscular tension
Answer: Amount of force a muscle can produce with a single maximum effort
Answer: Resting blood pressure increases