Vocabulary for Oceanography Chapter 1
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| Alvin | Deep Submergence Vehicle - built in 1964, made 44 hundred dives. Human Occupied Vehicle.
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| AUV | Autonomous Underwater Vehicles - preprogrammed, unmanned vehicles
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| Bathysphere | spherical chamber to allow humans to view the sea from within it
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| Columbus | Italian Explorer/navigator, sea voyager, tried to travel to Asia by circling the globe
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| Cook | British Explorer/cartographer - used chronometer, tried and failed to reach Antarctica
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| Eratosthenes | measured earth's circumference with the sun, the earth, and angles
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| Erikson, Leif | Leader of vikings, traveled to North America
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| Forbes, Edward | Used method of dredging to find organisms
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| GPS | Global Positioning system- self explanatory. uses satellites.
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| HMS Challenger Expedition | First global marine mission - steam assisted ship
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| Latitude | Imaginary lines for discovering your position on the globe - run from east to west
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| Longtitude | Imaginary lines for discovering your position on the globe - run from the north pole to the south pole
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| Magellan, Ferdinand | portugese explorer - first to circumnavigate the earth
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| Maury, Matthew | used his discoveries about wind patters to travel more efficiently
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| Ptolemy, Claudius | developed system of latitude and longitude as well as a map of our spherical map on a flat paper
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| Pytheas | discovered how the moon relates to tides, used the north star to determine longitude
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| ROV | Remotely Operated Underwater Vehicle - unoccupied and highly maneuverable
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| Scripps Institute of Oceanography | Institute of oceanography located in California
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| Scuba | Self contained underwater breathing apparatus - for people do stay underwater for a long time at great depth
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| Sonar | A method of using sound waves to navigate, used in oceanography to tell how far away land/ocean bottom is
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| Sumbersiles | underwater vehicle, either unmanned or for humans, often controlled from surface
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| Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute | First american institute for oceanography/marine biology. Located in Massachusetts
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