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What was the name of a famous ship used to study the ocean?
HMS Challenger
How much of the Earth's total volume is the global ocean?
1/800
What is the smallest ocean?
Artic Ocean
What are the major oceans?
Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean, Artic Ocean and Southern Ocean
What is the difference between a bathysphere and a bathyscaph?
Bathysphere is connected to the ship and the bathyscaph is free moving.
What are the three types of submersibles?
Bathysphere, bathyscaph, and submarine robot
What was one way they studied the ocean?
By reviewing naval records
What is covering nearly 3/4 of the Earth's surface?
Global Ocean
Who was Matthew F. Maury
He was an American naval officer who studied the ocean
When did modern oceanography begin?
In the 1850's
What is sonar used for?
It is used to make maps of the ocean.
What are the three major seas?
Mediterranean, Caribbean and South China
Why is Earth called the water planet?
No other planet has a similar covering of liquid water.
What is the deepest ocean?
Pacific Ocean
What are two tasks performed by submarine robots?
They take photographs and mineral samples from the ocean floor.