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Chapter 11
Chapter 11: History of Oceanography
Question | Answer |
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Spanish expeditionary ship sailed during the Age of Discovery (~1500 AD) | Victoria |
first navigators | Phoenicians |
early English navigator | Captain James Cook |
vitamin C deficiency | scurvy |
drew map of Gulf Stream | Timothy Folger |
father of oceanography | Matthew Fontaine Maury |
wrote about the development of coral reefs | Darwin |
led the HMS Challenger expedition | Thompson |
plankton researcher | Hensen |
traveled through the North Pole in the Fram | Nansen |
physical oceanography researcher | Ekman |
early marine science college in California | Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
South Atlantic currents were studied aboard this German ship | Meteor |
ship that confirmed sea-floor spreading through deep-sea drilling | Glomar Challenger |
carried humans deeper than they have ever gone before | Trieste |
took sea surface temperature measurements | Seasat A |
Jason's base | Medea |