Marine Science 111 Lab Exam UPDATED
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
Steps of the Scientific Method - CORRECT ANSWER - 1. Obervation
2. hypothesis
3. Experiment
4. Conclusion
5.Fact
6. Theory
Observation - CORRECT ANSWER - Noticing patterns in nature
Hypothesis - CORRECT ANSWER - a statement that attempts to explain observation
Experiment - CORRECT ANSWER - Designed to test the hypothesis
conclusion - CORRECT ANSWER - reject or support hypothesis
Scientific fact - CORRECT ANSWER - A hypothesis that has been throughly test many
times
Scientific Theory - CORRECT ANSWER - Multiple scientific facts come together to
explain a natural phenomenon
Speed= - CORRECT ANSWER - distance/time
F= - CORRECT ANSWER - 9/5C+32
, 1 st mi= - CORRECT ANSWER - 5280ft
1 n mi= - CORRECT ANSWER - 1.15st mi
1 knot= - CORRECT ANSWER - 1 n mi per hour
Area= - CORRECT ANSWER - Length x Width
Volume= - CORRECT ANSWER - length x width x height
1 inch= - CORRECT ANSWER - 2.54cm
Organisms that can't swim against the current - CORRECT ANSWER - Plankton
Organisms that can swim against the current - CORRECT ANSWER - nekton
what produces most of the worlds oxygen - CORRECT ANSWER - phytoplankton
What keeps plankton from sinking - CORRECT ANSWER - long spines, flat bodies, store
light compounds, swim vertically
What allows plankton to survive from their prey - CORRECT ANSWER - long spines,
toxic compounds, sheer numbers and some are transparent
How to calculate volume over water - CORRECT ANSWER - V=(PIE R^2) x DISTANCE
What plankton are photosynthetic, include algae and cynobacteria - CORRECT
ANSWER - Phytoplankton
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
Steps of the Scientific Method - CORRECT ANSWER - 1. Obervation
2. hypothesis
3. Experiment
4. Conclusion
5.Fact
6. Theory
Observation - CORRECT ANSWER - Noticing patterns in nature
Hypothesis - CORRECT ANSWER - a statement that attempts to explain observation
Experiment - CORRECT ANSWER - Designed to test the hypothesis
conclusion - CORRECT ANSWER - reject or support hypothesis
Scientific fact - CORRECT ANSWER - A hypothesis that has been throughly test many
times
Scientific Theory - CORRECT ANSWER - Multiple scientific facts come together to
explain a natural phenomenon
Speed= - CORRECT ANSWER - distance/time
F= - CORRECT ANSWER - 9/5C+32
, 1 st mi= - CORRECT ANSWER - 5280ft
1 n mi= - CORRECT ANSWER - 1.15st mi
1 knot= - CORRECT ANSWER - 1 n mi per hour
Area= - CORRECT ANSWER - Length x Width
Volume= - CORRECT ANSWER - length x width x height
1 inch= - CORRECT ANSWER - 2.54cm
Organisms that can't swim against the current - CORRECT ANSWER - Plankton
Organisms that can swim against the current - CORRECT ANSWER - nekton
what produces most of the worlds oxygen - CORRECT ANSWER - phytoplankton
What keeps plankton from sinking - CORRECT ANSWER - long spines, flat bodies, store
light compounds, swim vertically
What allows plankton to survive from their prey - CORRECT ANSWER - long spines,
toxic compounds, sheer numbers and some are transparent
How to calculate volume over water - CORRECT ANSWER - V=(PIE R^2) x DISTANCE
What plankton are photosynthetic, include algae and cynobacteria - CORRECT
ANSWER - Phytoplankton
