What caused the east-west distortion on early maps?
Answer: Difficulty in accurately measuring time
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What is one of the three government agencies responsible for researching, drafting, and publishing nautical charts?
What is one of the three government agencies responsible for researching, drafting, and publishing nautical charts?
Answer: Accept any of the following: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA); National Ocean service (NOS); OR Department of Commerce
In which ocean is the Beaufort gyre located?
In which ocean is the Beaufort gyre located?
Answer: Arctic Ocean OR Arctic
Which country has the longest continuous coastline?
Which country has the longest continuous coastline?
Answer: Canada
In which ocean would you find the Gulf Stream?
In which ocean would you find the Gulf Stream?
Answer: The North Atlantic
What body of water lies between Saudi Arabia and Egypt?
What body of water lies between Saudi Arabia and Egypt?
Answer: Red Sea OR Gulf of Aqaba
About 41 percent of U.S marine waters are protected in some way, but what percent is considered highly protected in no-take MPAs to protect sensitive species and habitats?
About 41 percent of U.S marine waters are protected in some way, but what percent is considered highly protected in no-take MPAs to protect sensitive species and habitats?
Answer: Three
When navigating at sea one must be aware of the difference between true north and magnetic north. What is the term given to this difference?
When navigating at sea one must be aware of the difference between true north and magnetic north. What is the term given to this difference?
Answer: The difference (or correction) is called the magnetic declination.
The knot, a unit of speed, is equal to how many nautical miles per hour?
The knot, a unit of speed, is equal to how many nautical miles per hour?
Answer: One
Which U.S. state has the greatest amount of oceanic coastline, with more miles of coastline than all the rest of the United States combined?
Which U.S. state has the greatest amount of oceanic coastline, with more miles of coastline than all the rest of the United States combined?
Answer: Alaska
Which river connects lake Erie and Lake Ontario
Which river connects lake Erie and Lake Ontario
Answer: Niagara River OR Niagara
What is the longest coral reef system in the world?
What is the longest coral reef system in the world?
Answer: Great Barrier Reef
What ocean basin is the smallest?
What ocean basin is the smallest?
Answer: Arctic OR Arctic Ocean
What name is given to the area where the northeast and southeast trade winds converge?
What name is given to the area where the northeast and southeast trade winds converge?
Answer: Intertropical Convergence Zone
What are the two major types of deep-sea oozes?
What are the two major types of deep-sea oozes?
Answer: Calcareous AND siliceous
What are isolated volcanic peaks in the ocean called?
What are isolated volcanic peaks in the ocean called?
Answer: Seamounts
What causes the flat top of a guyot?
What causes the flat top of a guyot?
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
What is one major difference between a gabbro and a basalt?
What is one major difference between a gabbro and a basalt?
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.
What geologic period do we currently live in?
What geologic period do we currently live in?
Answer: Quaternary
What process caused worldwide sea levels to rise starting 18,000 years ago?
What process caused worldwide sea levels to rise starting 18,000 years ago?
Answer: Melting of large ice sheets at the end of the last ice age
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