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Jeopardy

Jeopardy. Choose a category. You will be given the answer. You must give the correct question. Click to begin. Choose a point value. Choose a point value. Click here for Final Jeopardy. General Oceanography. Plate Tectonics. Beach Features. Seafloor Mapping. Ocean Currents.

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  1. Jeopardy Choose a category. You will be given the answer. You must give the correct question. Click to begin.

  2. Choose a point value. Choose a point value. Click here for Final Jeopardy

  3. General Oceanography Plate Tectonics Beach Features Seafloor Mapping Ocean Currents Planetary Winds 10 Point 10 Point 10 Point 10 Point 10 Point 10 Point 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points

  4. This is the study of all water environments including the plants and animals that live in them

  5. What is the Aquatic Science?

  6. This is a multi-science field encompassing geology, chemistry, physics, meteorology & biology as they pertain to marine ecosystems.

  7. What is a oceanography?

  8. This is also known as the water hemisphere.

  9. What is the southern hemisphere?

  10. This is another name for longitude.

  11. What is a meridian?

  12. This is where the International Date Line is located.

  13. What is 180 degrees longitude?

  14. This is the center of the earth, the most dense layer made of iron and nickel.

  15. What is the core?

  16. This is the middle layer of earth (not “Middle Earth”) made up of silicon and oxygen.

  17. What is the mantle?

  18. This is the rising up, spreading out and sinking of gas, liquid or molten material due to heat.

  19. What are convection currents?

  20. This is when one plate plunges below another.

  21. What is subduction?

  22. This is the southern portion of Pangea (includes Africa, S. America, India, Austrailia and Antarctica).

  23. What is Gondwanaland?

  24. This is a nearly horizontal part of the backshore of the beach formed by the erosion of material by wave action.

  25. What is a berm?

  26. This is a ridge or mound of loose, windblown material; usually sand.

  27. What is a dune?

  28. This is an area near shore where waves break.

  29. What is the surf zone?

  30. This is the zone in which most commercial fishing takes place.

  31. What is the neritic zone?

  32. This forms when large waves suddenly hit bottom in shallow water, examples are tsunami and tidal bores.

  33. What are surging breaker?

  34. This is the amount of the earth covered in water.

  35. What is 3/4?

  36. This is the name of the satellite that found an documented the wreck of the Titanic.

  37. What is Jason?

  38. This is the name of the expedition that mapped the ocean floor.

  39. What is Challenger?

  40. This is the man who proposed continental drift.

  41. Who is Alfred Wagner?

  42. This feature forms at continental collisions.

  43. What are mountains?

  44. This is the direction the Coriolis Force curves or twists the ocean currents and winds in the northern hemisphere.

  45. What is to the right?

  46. This is large mounds of circular flowing water that extends for thousands of square miles.

  47. What is a gyre?

  48. These drive the equatorial currents.

  49. What are the trade winds?

  50. This is a western boundary current.

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