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Oceanography
Oceanography
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Undergraduate 2
01/01/2013

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Iceland
Definition
Most geologically active place on earth
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INOUALC
Definition
Innercore,outercore, lower mantle, upper mantle, athenosphere, lithosphere, crust (earth's layers starting with the inner most)
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Uniformitarianism
Definition
Earth's geolocial features explained by processes
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Catatrophism
Definition
interepreting the biblical story of creation literally
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Wegener's theory
Definition
continental drift
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Subduction
Definition
crust plunging into the mantle along the periphery of the pacific
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Paleomagnetism
Definition
the fossil or remanet, magnetic field of a rock
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Oxygen
Definition
Most abundant element on earth (arguable with iron because it is technically a gas
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Plate Fleet of 1715
Definition
The fleet that changed spain's status of the most powerful country on earth
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Sirenians
Definition
Scientific name for manatees and dugongs
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Bjarni Herjulfsson
Definition
First european to see new world
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Mel fischer
Definition
Famous for the discovery of the lost galleon, the Atocha
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The big bang happened when
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13.7 billion years ago
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The birth of the solar system
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4.58 billion years ago
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Ocean
Definition
the vast saline water that occupies the depressions of the earth's surface
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Prince harry
Definition
Funded exploration
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Captian cook
Definition
1st marine science, navigated at high lattitudes
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Longitude problem
Definition
use clock to find longitude at sea, but clock always changed its speed after a couple days
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First to sail around the world
Definition
the protuguese 500 years ago
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Whale shark
Definition
Largest fish in the sea
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Deepest part of the sea
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6.8 miles
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Most expensive shell
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$5,000
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First human diving
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2,300 years ago in a diving bell
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Territorial Waters
Definition
new distance 200 miles
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Kow swamp
Definition
Found remains of serveral burick skulls in austrailia
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Vikings
Definition
Norse word for piracy; free men and women acting on their own authority
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Leif Ericson
Definition
landed in 1000 ad in American, enticed others to come to america by calling it 'vineland'
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Thorvald Ericson
Definition
First european to be killed in North America
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Galleons
Definition
Big ships
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Gulfstream
Definition
stream of that winds that flows warm air from North America to upper Europe
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Alexandria, Egypt
Definition
Home of the first library that was very important
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Christopher Columbus
Definition
Sailor for the spanish to find new lands; had evidence of other lands
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Pizzaro
Definition
Discovered the Incas; brought riches back to spain, making it the most richest nation
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Royal 5th
Definition
Taking 1/5 of all treasure brought into the country
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September 4th 1642
Definition
a hurricane shipwrecked the Santa Margerita, Atocha angering the Royal family of spain
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Bone found in most male animals
Definition
Oosic
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Piniped
Definition
Feather footed; walruss and sealion
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Coral
Definition
An animal that secretes and exoskeleton that humans can see. Comes in a varitey of colors
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Cameo
Definition
Carved usually, outerh layer is lighter, inner core almost orange
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Mother of Pearl
Definition
Come from snails, irradescent inside fro jewelry and buttons
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Ivory
Definition
Seal teeth, whale teeth, walrus tusk
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Pearls
Definition
round or irregular growths from mollusks
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Biggest pearl
Definition
Pearl of Allah
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Mikimoto
Definition
cultures the finest pearls but needed them to incubate in the mollusk longer
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Misa
Definition
Marine biologist who knew how to keep oysters alive for a long time
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Ambergis
Definition
Coating that whales secrete to cover hard objects (squid beak) to be able to eat it
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Oil and Gas
Definition
Part of a continuim of deceased micro-organisms
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Phosphorite
Definition
Sources are guano, waste from sea birds and bats, used in fertilzers and detergent
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Cadofoveata
Definition
a mollusk that is blind and shelless, found in deepest part of ocea
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Solanogasters
Definition
Worm like taxa and have little spines
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Chiton
Definition
coat of nail shell, segmented, eyeless and blind, herbivores that sit in the sun during the day and go into the ocean at night
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Monoplacaphora
Definition
small, segmented body wiht 2 pairs of sex organs and 7 pairs of kidneys; radula
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Scaphopods
Definition
tusk shell; both ends open, suck up materials through one end and blow it out the other
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radula
Definition
a tongue covered with rows of teeth like things
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Gastropods
Definition
40,000 species; snails; one piece shell, name translates to stomach footed
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Bivalves
Definition
2 shells, second most diverse group; reproduces fast, give off gold fiber that holds them to ocean floor
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Operculum
Definition
Trap door that snails have
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Penostracum
Definition
Skinlike stuff that covers shell and hides the colors of snail shells
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Cephlapods
Definition
squid, octopus, chambered natulis
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Volcanism
Definition
gas, matter, and other materials released from geolocially activity
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Obsidian
Definition
volcanic glass
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Pumice
Definition
obsidian infused with glass, very light because of air chambers
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Ash
Definition
Very fine, clingy particles; little pieces of glass
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Pele's Hair
Definition
Molten rock stretched into hair-like structures
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Volcanic Bombs
Definition
Volcanic rocks, shot out as liquid, vary in size
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Vog
Definition
Sulfur dioxide; fog that comes from valconoes
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