Consider the following questions:
(Mastering Geology - GEODe - Floor of the Ocean)
1. How does one find the depth using an echo sounder?
2. What is the depth in frame 5? Show work.
3. What is the major difference between data gathered by an echo sounder and that gathered by a multi-beam sonar?
4. How are satellites used to measure peaks and valleys on the ocean floor?
5. In frame 16, use the mouse to move the map so that it shows both coasts of the U.S. What is the major feature that is different between the two coasts?
6. What are the three broad zones of the ocean floor?
7. Where are passive margins found?
8. What is a continental shelf?
9. What is the difference between continental slope and continental rise?
10. What are abyssal plains?
11. What is an example of a deep ocean trench?
(Note: In part II, the Kermadec Trough (trench) shown in frame 33 is mentioned.)
12. What is a seamount?
13. What is the longest topographic feature on Earth's surface?
14. Where would one find a rift valley in the ocean?
15. Where would one find the Tonga Trench?
(Mastering Geology - GEODe - Coastal Processes)
16. What is the source of energy causing most waves that hit costal shorelines?
17. What is wavelength?
18. As a wave gets near a shoreline, what happens to its speed? Its height?
19. What is beach drift?
20. What are spits?
21. What is a tombolo?
22. What happens on each side of a groin?
23. What happens to beach area behind breakwaters?
24. What is a wave-cut cliff?
25. What is wave refraction?
26. What is the relationship between sea arches and sea stacks?
(Architeuthis dux)
27. What is an invertebrate? What is the largest invertebrate on Earth?
28. What creature from Norwegian folklore was probably based on sightings of the giant squid?
29. What is a teuthologist?
30. Based on today's science, how large are the suckers on a giant squid?
31. What material composes a squid's beak?
32. In the 1990's, where did fishermen catch the greatest number of giant squids?
33. What are some differences between a giant squid's arms and tentacles?
34. What is the purpose of radula inside a squid's mouth?
35. What are two types of motion associated with a giant squid?
36. What causes squids to need to move very fast if the adults can reach prey 30 feet away?
37. What is the probable limit for the lifespan of a giant squid?
38. How do giant squids compensate for a short lifetime and therefore limited reproductive opportunities?
39. Do giant squids live in groups? Explain your answer.
40. If a giant squid survives until it is about ½ adult size, what predator is its main threat?
41. What is the relative size of giant squid's eye compared to an adult human?
42. What are two possible ways for a giant squid to capture food?
43. According to the experts, where in the ocean do giant squids live?
44. What will the expedition do with bio-acoustical listening devices?
Textbook: Earth Science , Tarbuck and Lutgens, Prentice Hall, 14th ed.
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