All Quiz Answers -- Oceanography

Snow reflects back into space as much as ________ of incoming solar radiation, and so has a high albedo.

90% -- Ice has high albedo

The first person to advance the idea of mobile continents or continental drift was:

Alfred Wegener.

Characteristics of passive continental margins include which of the following?

Broad / wide continental shelves

Which of the following Wilson cycle stages would the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans be considered?

Mature

Which of the following techniques used to determine ocean bathymetry is illustrated in the image?

Multibeam Sonar

The California Current is associated with which gyre?

North Pacific Gyre

What was the name for the supercontinent about 200 million years ago?

Pangaea

________ is generated by the pull of the weight of a plate as it sinks underneath an overlying plate.

Slab Pull

Which of the following is responsible for 90% of the deaths associated with hurricanes?

Storm Surge

Which of the following statements about the Coriolis effect is correct?

The magnitude of the Coriolis effect depends on how long the object is in motion.

Alfred Wegener's continental drift hypothesis received much hostile criticism and ridicule from the scientific community because of which of the following?

The mechanism he proposed for the movement of the continents.

In which layer of the atmosphere is all weather generated?

Troposphere

The Kuroshio (Japan) Current is an example of which of the following types of currents?

Western Boundary Current

Deep ocean currents are driven primarily by ________ .

density differences

Which type of current flow moves in a circular path around a subtropical convergence, reflecting Ekman transport, gravity, and the Coriolis effect?

geostrophic circulation

In the ocean, where are the youngest rocks found?

mid-ocean ridges

Volcanoes on the seafloor that are flat-topped because of wave erosion are called ________.

tablemounts

Frederick Vine and Drummond Matthews determined that new ocean floor was being produced at ocean ridges by examining:

the magnetic pattern of rocks on the seafloor.

The temperate regions are characterized by:

westerly winds

A tropical maritime air mass is likely to be:

wet and warm