OceanographyChapter1 Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
Alvin | Deep Submergence Vehicle - built in 1964, made 44 hundred dives. Human Occupied Vehicle. |
AUV | Autonomous Underwater Vehicles - preprogrammed, unmanned vehicles |
Bathysphere | spherical chamber to allow humans to view the sea from within it |
Columbus | Italian Explorer/navigator, sea voyager, tried to travel to Asia by circling the globe |
Cook | British Explorer/cartographer - used chronometer, tried and failed to reach Antarctica |
Eratosthenes | measured earth's circumference with the sun, the earth, and angles |
Erikson, Leif | Leader of vikings, traveled to North America |
Forbes, Edward | Used method of dredging to find organisms |
GPS | Global Positioning system- self explanatory. uses satellites. |
HMS Challenger Expedition | First global marine mission - steam assisted ship |
Latitude | Imaginary lines for discovering your position on the globe - run from east to west |
Longtitude | Imaginary lines for discovering your position on the globe - run from the north pole to the south pole |
Magellan, Ferdinand | portugese explorer - first to circumnavigate the earth |
Maury, Matthew | used his discoveries about wind patters to travel more efficiently |
Ptolemy, Claudius | developed system of latitude and longitude as well as a map of our spherical map on a flat paper |
Pytheas | discovered how the moon relates to tides, used the north star to determine longitude |
ROV | Remotely Operated Underwater Vehicle - unoccupied and highly maneuverable |
Scripps Institute of Oceanography | Institute of oceanography located in California |
Scuba | Self contained underwater breathing apparatus - for people do stay underwater for a long time at great depth |
Sonar | A method of using sound waves to navigate, used in oceanography to tell how far away land/ocean bottom is |
Sumbersiles | underwater vehicle, either unmanned or for humans, often controlled from surface |
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute | First american institute for oceanography/marine biology. Located in Massachusetts |
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