Marine Science Quiz

What were the three primary reasons for early civilizations to interact with the ocean?

• Trade, transportation, and food

• Exploration, recreation, and warfare

• Religion, art, and culture

• Agriculture, mining, and construction

Who established the first trade routes throughout the Mediterranean Sea?

• Phoenicians

• Romans

• Greeks

• Egyptians

During the first voyage to set sail around the world, what was the survival rate?

• 98%

• 20%

• 50%

• 75%

What are the time periods in chronological order of the Marine Science Timeline?

• Precambrian, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, Cenozoic

• Paleozoic, Precambrian, Mesozoic, Cenozoic

• Mesozoic, Paleozoic, Precambrian, Cenozoic

• Cenozoic, Mesozoic, Paleozoic, Precambrian

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What was the first historical reference to a voyage?

• Noah’s arc

• The Odyssey by Homer

• The Travels of Marco Polo

• The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea

What was the first recorded sea voyage of any kind?

• The voyage of Pharaoh Snefru's fleet

• The voyage of Christopher Columbus

• The voyage of Vasco da Gama

• The voyage of Ferdinand Magellan

The Phoenicians contributed to ocean exploration by discovering the first what?

• Sea route

• Compass

• Sailing ship

• Navigation map

What type of navigation did the Phoenicians primarily use?

• Celestial navigation

• GPS navigation

• Map-based navigation

• Compass navigation

What was the Polynesians' big breakthrough, something that no other group had done before?

• Developing advanced navigation techniques

• Building large stone statues

• Creating a written language

• Domesticating animals

The Greeks were the first to use which two things in order to create maps?

• Mathematics and Astronomy

• Geography and Cartography

• Geometry and Trigonometry

• Navigation and Surveying