QUIZ 1: THE HISTORY OF
OCEANOGRAPHY(Correctly solved)
The first electronic applications used for navigation was _____.
Radio Direction Finder
Sonar
Radar
LORAN-C correct answersRadio Direction Finder
1. Picard and Walsh
2. Forbes and Maury
3. developed in 1922
4. locates survivors at sea
5. averages 30 miles wide
6. distance of open water over which wind flows
7. rescued at 5,000-foot depth
8. query buoy-mounted systems correct answers1. bathyscaph Trieste
2."Father of Oceanography"
3. echo sounder
4. sofar
5. continental shelf
6. fetch
7. Alvin
8. satellite-mounted sensors
devices produce sound pulses and receive back the reflected echoes. correct answersSONAR
Select all that apply. Which of the following were considered Fathers of Oceanography?
Charles Darwin
Victor Hensen
Sir John Ross
Edward Forbes
Matthew Maury correct answersEdward Forbes
Matthew Maury
William Ferrel _____.
created a tide-prediction machine
measured under-surface currents using a current drag
developed the first sonar device
introduced "significant wave" forecasting correct answerscreated a tide-prediction machine
The major contributions of Maury included:
fishery science
plankton
ocean winds
OCEANOGRAPHY(Correctly solved)
The first electronic applications used for navigation was _____.
Radio Direction Finder
Sonar
Radar
LORAN-C correct answersRadio Direction Finder
1. Picard and Walsh
2. Forbes and Maury
3. developed in 1922
4. locates survivors at sea
5. averages 30 miles wide
6. distance of open water over which wind flows
7. rescued at 5,000-foot depth
8. query buoy-mounted systems correct answers1. bathyscaph Trieste
2."Father of Oceanography"
3. echo sounder
4. sofar
5. continental shelf
6. fetch
7. Alvin
8. satellite-mounted sensors
devices produce sound pulses and receive back the reflected echoes. correct answersSONAR
Select all that apply. Which of the following were considered Fathers of Oceanography?
Charles Darwin
Victor Hensen
Sir John Ross
Edward Forbes
Matthew Maury correct answersEdward Forbes
Matthew Maury
William Ferrel _____.
created a tide-prediction machine
measured under-surface currents using a current drag
developed the first sonar device
introduced "significant wave" forecasting correct answerscreated a tide-prediction machine
The major contributions of Maury included:
fishery science
plankton
ocean winds
