Marine Science 111 Lab Exam UPDATED Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers

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