Quiz: Oceanic Exploration

Phoenicians...

• Predicted different types of plant and animal life at different depths of the ocean. Introduced the idea of dredging.

• (Mathematician) predicted the circumference of the Earth

• Created by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and can carry up to 3 passengers to great depths (14,764 ft.)

• Navigated and traded around Mediterranean Sea, Indian Ocean, Red Sea, and Africa; 2000BC.

Eratosthenes...

• Ship-borne warriors and traders of the north (Norsemen) who went on expeditions to explore the Americas, Iceland, Greenland.

• Predicted different types of plant and animal life at different depths of the ocean. Introduced the idea of dredging.

• Mathematician) predicted the circumference of the Earth.

• Created by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and can carry up to 3 passengers to great depths (14,764 ft.)

Romans...

• Studied and noted the phenomenon of erosion and researched and documented the water cycle.

• 1700's A British navigator who discovered the Hawaiian Islands. Is considered the best cartographer and reckless

  navigator of his time.

• Settles the first European Colony in Panama.

• England's Royal Society obtained the use of this vessel to study sea floor characteristics, chemical composition of sea water and life at all levels.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Vikings...

• Attempts to reach East Indies

  by sailing west because Eastern routes were blocked. He crossed the Atlantic and

  "found" the Americas.

• Ship-borne warriors and traders of the north (Norsemen) who went on expeditions to explore the Americas, Iceland, Greenland.

• Predicted different types of plant and animal life at different depths of the ocean. Introduced the idea of dredging.

• (Mathematician) predicted the circumference of the Earth.

Columbus...

• Attempts to reach East Indies by sailing west because Eastern

  routes were blocked. He crossed the Atlantic and "found" the Americas.

• Ship-borne warriors and traders of the north (Norsemen) who went on expeditions to explore the Americas, Iceland, Greenland.

• Predicted different types of plant and animal life at different depths of the ocean. Introduced the idea of dredging.

• (Mathematician) predicted the circumference of the Earth.

Balboa...

• 1700's A British navigator who discovered the Hawaiian Islands. Is considered the best cartographer and reckless

  navigator of his time.

• Settles the first European Colony in Panama.

• England's Royal Society obtained the use of this vessel to study sea floor characteristics, chemical composition of sea water and life at all levels.

• Was credited with being the first around the world... though while on voyage, he was killed in the Philippines in 1521.

Magellan...

• Was credited with being the first around the world... though while on voyage, he was killed in the Philippines in 1521.

• Attempts to reach East Indies by sailing west because Eastern routes were blocked. He crossed the Atlantic and “found" the Americas.

• Ship-borne warriors and traders of the north (Norsemen) who went on expeditions to explore the Americas, Iceland, Greenland.

• Predicted different types of plant and animal life at different depths of the ocean. Introduced the idea of dredging

Captain James Cook...

• Studied and noted the phenomenon of erosion and researched and documented the water cycle.

• 1700's A British navigator who discovered the Hawaiian Islands. Is considered the best cartographer and reckless navigator of his time.

• Settles the first European Colony in Panama.

• England's Royal Society obtained the use of this vessel to study sea floor characteristics, chemical composition of sea water and life at all levels

Charles Darwin...

• 1800's sailed to the Galapagos Islands to study the Biology of the Sea and in the process developed his Theory of Natural Selection.

• Charted maps of the gulf stream in 1777.

• Studied and noted the phenomenon of erosion and researched and documented the water cycle.

• 1700's A British navigator who discovered the Hawaiian Islands. Is considered the best cartographer and reckless navigator of his time.

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Ben Franklin...

• 1800's sailed to the Galapagos Islands to study the Biology of the Sea and in the process developed his Theory of

  Natural Selection.

• Charted maps of the gulf stream in 1777.

• Studied and noted the phenomenon of erosion and researched and documented the water cycle.

• 1700's A British navigator who discovered the Hawaiian Islands. Is considered the best cartographer and reckless navigator of his time.