Oceanography Questions
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How much of the world's reefs are in the Caribbean Sea?
How many plates are there on Earth?
What is it called when a diver ascends too quickly and bubbles form in the bloodstream?
What fish gets its name from the three extra long fins it has? It uses them to stay just above the bottom of the ocean.
What is the deepest point of the Caribbean Sea?
What is the average size of a continental shelf?
What is the breaking-off process of icebergs called?
What are the two basic types of continental margins?
How many tons of fish are caught in the Atlantic each year?
What is known for spawning in the Sargasso Sea?
What is the land that slopes to form the deep sea called?
This is a sonar device that scans the seabed on either side. It is towed along by a surface ship.
What is the name of the vessel that set out in 1872 to discover the physics, chemistry, and biology of the ocean?
The shock waves hit seabed rocks and are reflected off them. From the reflected waves, scientists can tell which sort of rock they have hit.
These are used for taking samples of the seabed. They are analyzed to give scientists information about the seabed and its creatures.
What is the name of the technology scientists use to graph the ocean floor using sound?
This is lowered to the sea bottom, where its nets collect samples of sea animals. It also carries a camera.
This layer of Earth is a solid ball of iron and nickel. Even though it is 8,100 degrees, it is able to stay solid because of the immense pressure.
This layer of Earth is made of molten iron and nickel.
How much of fish caught for food is caught from the continental shelf?