STUDY GAME-----Ocean exploration
part one: explorers: :
1. What was the first offical science vessel to travel around the World called? What kind of data did they collect?
2. What early sailors 1200 BC explored the Mediterranean Sea area?
3. What early people 2000 years ago traveled the Pacific Ocean by boats?
4. Name some other famous explorers from long ago: name 3-4 of them.
5. What is the common term for " self-contained underwater breathing apparatus" = ?
6. Why is Jacques Cousteau so famous?
Part Two: forms or methods to study the Ocean:
1. Name the 5 ways to study the ocean floor by technology today:
2. What is sonar?
3. How do satellites help us study the ocean floor?
4. What is a submersible?
5. What is a "remote underwater manipulator" or "RUM" ?
Part Three: Features of the ocean floor-
1. Name the 7 main features of the ocean floor.
2. What are the mountains on the ocean floor called?
3. What are volcanoes on the ocean floor called?
4. The large flat surfaces or plains of the ocean floor are called what?
5. The super deep canyons of the ocean floor are called?
6. The large chains of mountain ranges of the oceans are called?
7. From the coastlines the ocean floor starts to go downward. This area is called the continental...........____________?
8. Below the first "steps" going down to the ocean floor from the beaches, you will fine way out to sea a very steep edge know as what?
Part Four: Sea Floor speading and Plates-
1. From the middle of the Atlantic Ocean is a chain of mts called what?
2. This mid-ocean mountain range has older or younger rocks near its center core? As you go farther out (East or West of the mts) are the rocks and material === younger or older matter?
3. There are 3 parts to the Earth's layers: name the 3 parts.
4. The hot liquid material is called what?
5. When the magma reaches the surface it is then called what?
6. When the top crust starts to break off into pieces they are then called what large portions?
7. The large plates will move apart and and cause the ocean floor to do what?
8. Sometimes the plates move together or collide. What is this called?
Woud it perhaps lead to earthquakes or ocean quakes?
Part Five:
1. Ocean habitats or zones are made up of how many? ( 3, 4, or 5)
2. Names the zone that is closest to the shoreline.
3. Name the zone "out to sea" just out on the continental shelf area.
4. What is the zone called that is far out to sea called?
5. The life in the ocean is divided into 3 forms of life organisms: name the three categories.
6. One group are tiny algae and animals that float at surface of waters.
( benthos, nekton or planton) What are they called?
7. One group are the many free swimming such as squid, sharks and whales what are they called? ( benthos, nekton or plankton)
8. One group are those that inhabit the ocean floor . They are called benthos, nekton or plankton?
Answers for Part One:
1. HMS Challenger 1872 , found data on ocean depth, 4000 organisms, ocean currents, shape of sea floor, and water salt chemistry
2. the Phoencians of 1200 BC 3. the Polynesians (Hawaiian sailors)
4.Columbus, James Cook, Leif Ericson, Magellean, Balboa, Sir Frances Drake, Jacques Cousteau
5. SCUBA 6. Jacques Cousteau invented SCUBA gear and other underwater inventions , he is consdidered the greatest underwater explorer of all time and expert of ocean life of our World.
PART TWO:
1. SONAR, scuba gear, submersibles, satellities, RUM robots, and deep flight aviator subs
2. Sonar uses sound waves to study distances and objects and works well looking at sea floors
3. Satellites above Earth can find current readings of the ocean almost instantly for all as;pects of ocean studies such as weather, schools of fish population, oil spills, and even volanic/ quakes.
4. Submersibles are small subs that can go deep into the ocean floor for scientic studies. They were used to find and study the Titanic and other shipwrecks .
5. The RUM is a robot or machine that can collect sampls and walk on the ocean floor
PART THREE:
1. The seven features of sea floor = abayssal plain, sea volcano islands, trenches or sea canyons, mid ocean ridges or sea mts ranges, continental slope, continental shelves, sea mounts or underwater sea mountains. There are also guyots (seamounts that erupt and loose their top)
2. A seamount is one single sea mountain, a group of sea mts are called mid-ocean ridges
3. Ocean floor volcanoes or called sea volcanoes or guyots. Those that are high enought or tall enough to be above water are an island or an island with a volcanoe mountain visible.
4. The abyss or abyssal plain is the flat part of the ocean floor.
5. The deep canyons are called ---trenches
6. Mid-ocean ridge
7. Continental Slope 8. continental shelves
part one: explorers: :
1. What was the first offical science vessel to travel around the World called? What kind of data did they collect?
2. What early sailors 1200 BC explored the Mediterranean Sea area?
3. What early people 2000 years ago traveled the Pacific Ocean by boats?
4. Name some other famous explorers from long ago: name 3-4 of them.
5. What is the common term for " self-contained underwater breathing apparatus" = ?
6. Why is Jacques Cousteau so famous?
Part Two: forms or methods to study the Ocean:
1. Name the 5 ways to study the ocean floor by technology today:
2. What is sonar?
3. How do satellites help us study the ocean floor?
4. What is a submersible?
5. What is a "remote underwater manipulator" or "RUM" ?
Part Three: Features of the ocean floor-
1. Name the 7 main features of the ocean floor.
2. What are the mountains on the ocean floor called?
3. What are volcanoes on the ocean floor called?
4. The large flat surfaces or plains of the ocean floor are called what?
5. The super deep canyons of the ocean floor are called?
6. The large chains of mountain ranges of the oceans are called?
7. From the coastlines the ocean floor starts to go downward. This area is called the continental...........____________?
8. Below the first "steps" going down to the ocean floor from the beaches, you will fine way out to sea a very steep edge know as what?
Part Four: Sea Floor speading and Plates-
1. From the middle of the Atlantic Ocean is a chain of mts called what?
2. This mid-ocean mountain range has older or younger rocks near its center core? As you go farther out (East or West of the mts) are the rocks and material === younger or older matter?
3. There are 3 parts to the Earth's layers: name the 3 parts.
4. The hot liquid material is called what?
5. When the magma reaches the surface it is then called what?
6. When the top crust starts to break off into pieces they are then called what large portions?
7. The large plates will move apart and and cause the ocean floor to do what?
8. Sometimes the plates move together or collide. What is this called?
Woud it perhaps lead to earthquakes or ocean quakes?
Part Five:
1. Ocean habitats or zones are made up of how many? ( 3, 4, or 5)
2. Names the zone that is closest to the shoreline.
3. Name the zone "out to sea" just out on the continental shelf area.
4. What is the zone called that is far out to sea called?
5. The life in the ocean is divided into 3 forms of life organisms: name the three categories.
6. One group are tiny algae and animals that float at surface of waters.
( benthos, nekton or planton) What are they called?
7. One group are the many free swimming such as squid, sharks and whales what are they called? ( benthos, nekton or plankton)
8. One group are those that inhabit the ocean floor . They are called benthos, nekton or plankton?
Answers for Part One:
1. HMS Challenger 1872 , found data on ocean depth, 4000 organisms, ocean currents, shape of sea floor, and water salt chemistry
2. the Phoencians of 1200 BC 3. the Polynesians (Hawaiian sailors)
4.Columbus, James Cook, Leif Ericson, Magellean, Balboa, Sir Frances Drake, Jacques Cousteau
5. SCUBA 6. Jacques Cousteau invented SCUBA gear and other underwater inventions , he is consdidered the greatest underwater explorer of all time and expert of ocean life of our World.
PART TWO:
1. SONAR, scuba gear, submersibles, satellities, RUM robots, and deep flight aviator subs
2. Sonar uses sound waves to study distances and objects and works well looking at sea floors
3. Satellites above Earth can find current readings of the ocean almost instantly for all as;pects of ocean studies such as weather, schools of fish population, oil spills, and even volanic/ quakes.
4. Submersibles are small subs that can go deep into the ocean floor for scientic studies. They were used to find and study the Titanic and other shipwrecks .
5. The RUM is a robot or machine that can collect sampls and walk on the ocean floor
PART THREE:
1. The seven features of sea floor = abayssal plain, sea volcano islands, trenches or sea canyons, mid ocean ridges or sea mts ranges, continental slope, continental shelves, sea mounts or underwater sea mountains. There are also guyots (seamounts that erupt and loose their top)
2. A seamount is one single sea mountain, a group of sea mts are called mid-ocean ridges
3. Ocean floor volcanoes or called sea volcanoes or guyots. Those that are high enought or tall enough to be above water are an island or an island with a volcanoe mountain visible.
4. The abyss or abyssal plain is the flat part of the ocean floor.
5. The deep canyons are called ---trenches
6. Mid-ocean ridge
7. Continental Slope 8. continental shelves
Part Four:
1. Mid Atlantic Ridge 2. Older rocks at center-core. The farther out = younger
3. Crust, mantle and core layers 4. hot material is called magma or lava
5. Lava 6. plates 7. sea floor spreading 8. plate tectonics or converging plates/ yes
Part Five:
1. three zones 2. tidal or intertidal zone 3. Neritic zone 4. open-ocean zone
5. Plankton, nekton, benthos 6. plankton 7. nekton 8. benthos
1. Mid Atlantic Ridge 2. Older rocks at center-core. The farther out = younger
3. Crust, mantle and core layers 4. hot material is called magma or lava
5. Lava 6. plates 7. sea floor spreading 8. plate tectonics or converging plates/ yes
Part Five:
1. three zones 2. tidal or intertidal zone 3. Neritic zone 4. open-ocean zone
5. Plankton, nekton, benthos 6. plankton 7. nekton 8. benthos
A. CLIMATE -introduction
1. The average, year-after-year weather conditions in an area is called?
2. A large area that has a similar climate (like our southwestern USA)
is called a __________________
3. The Earth is divided into (2, 3, or 4) temperature zones?
4. What is the zone called that is near the equator? (its warm there)
5. What is the zone called that is near the north and south poles?
6. The zone that is between the poles and equator is called what?
7. What climate is near an ocean or large lake (marine or continental)?
8. What is the central area of USA's climate? (marine or continental) ?
B. Factors affecting climate and weather:
1. Highlands or mts. affect temps to have (warm or cool) climates?
2. Marine climates have (mild winters and cool summers)? true or false?
3. Temperate climates have mild winters and cool summers? true /false?
4.Rain/ snow comes off of mountains due to prevailing winds? true/false?
5. From picture below: which side will have a very dry/ arid region?
1. The average, year-after-year weather conditions in an area is called?
2. A large area that has a similar climate (like our southwestern USA)
is called a __________________
3. The Earth is divided into (2, 3, or 4) temperature zones?
4. What is the zone called that is near the equator? (its warm there)
5. What is the zone called that is near the north and south poles?
6. The zone that is between the poles and equator is called what?
7. What climate is near an ocean or large lake (marine or continental)?
8. What is the central area of USA's climate? (marine or continental) ?
B. Factors affecting climate and weather:
1. Highlands or mts. affect temps to have (warm or cool) climates?
2. Marine climates have (mild winters and cool summers)? true or false?
3. Temperate climates have mild winters and cool summers? true /false?
4.Rain/ snow comes off of mountains due to prevailing winds? true/false?
5. From picture below: which side will have a very dry/ arid region?
6. Super large sea and land breezes that change directions and also cause major rainstorms are called: ( doldrums or monsoons) ?
7. When the USA is having winter season, is the Earth tilted towards or away from the Sun?
7. When the USA is having winter season, is the Earth tilted towards or away from the Sun?
C. Climate regions of the World
1. Can you name the main six climate regions of the World?
2. What is the climate that has rain-forests and tropical plants called?
3. Another name for grasslands with scattered trees is called what?
4. Name two famous places that have large tropical climates.
5. The word "arid" means what? What does "semi-arid" mean?
6. Name three places that have large desert regions.
7. Ice caps and tundra climates are micro-climates to what major kind?
8. What is permafrost and where would you find it?
9. The higher up a mountain what will the temperatures do? (up or down)
D. The above diagram is about kinds of biomes in our World.
1. What are the two largest areas of biomes of our World?
2. From your kuno assignment name one area you found a picture from the following biomes: polar, desert, tropical, and grassland/savanna
3. List 2-3 famous mountains or mountain ranges:
4. Another area of our World are the marine or ocean areas:
Name 3 islands of the World you know of:
5. Name two cities or places that would be very cold sometimes.
6. Name two cities or places that would be very hot sometimes.
1. What are the two largest areas of biomes of our World?
2. From your kuno assignment name one area you found a picture from the following biomes: polar, desert, tropical, and grassland/savanna
3. List 2-3 famous mountains or mountain ranges:
4. Another area of our World are the marine or ocean areas:
Name 3 islands of the World you know of:
5. Name two cities or places that would be very cold sometimes.
6. Name two cities or places that would be very hot sometimes.
Directions for video assignment --if you wish for extra - credit then you will write a summary from things you learned
Set One----pick one of these 3 videos and watch at least 15-20 minutes and list 4-5 thoughts or what you learned from watching part of the video:
1. Destination Mars, movie
2. Race to the Moon movie-----Discovery channel
3. Red Planet----Science channel
Set One----pick one of these 3 videos and watch at least 15-20 minutes and list 4-5 thoughts or what you learned from watching part of the video:
1. Destination Mars, movie
2. Race to the Moon movie-----Discovery channel
3. Red Planet----Science channel
****this movie below = awesome and is called "Deep Impact". Its about a big comet hitting EARTH !
I highly recommend this movie!!!
1. Get some popcorn, a candy bar, or a smoothie and granola bar
2. A pillow and some friends to watch this on a Saturday afternoon !
3. Invite "Grandma or Grandpa" too, they will love it as well !
I highly recommend this movie!!!
1. Get some popcorn, a candy bar, or a smoothie and granola bar
2. A pillow and some friends to watch this on a Saturday afternoon !
3. Invite "Grandma or Grandpa" too, they will love it as well !
The movies below are classic Sci-Fiction for fun:
1. Meteor (TV) 2. Asteroid (TV) 3. Invaders from Mars 4. Capricorn One
Planets/ Solar System Study Game
Mars:
1. Why is Mars called the "red planet"? due to iron rich rocks/ soil.
2. Could one walk on Mars and be similar to Earth's gravity? yes
3. Does Mars have clouds? yes, but very very thin and not that many
4. What makes up the ice caps of Mars? frozen water and frozen carbon-dioxide of the northern and southern poles of Mars / some might be underground
5. Does Mars have a tilted axis and season of winter/ summer? yes
6. Does Mars have dust-storms and melted to increasing flows of ice yes
7. What is Olympus Mons? a super large volcano on Mars
8. How big is Olympus Mons? as big as Missouri and 3 times taller than Mt Everest (the tallest mountain on Earth)
9. What is Phobos and Deimos? the 2 moons of Mars
10. Does Mars have enough oxygen to breath? no
11. Name 3 movies about Mars: answers will vary
VENUS
1. What god is Venus named from? the Goddess of Love/ Beauty
2. What is different or special about how Venus rotates? it goes very,very slow, only once complete spin every 8 months/ or 4 months of daylight/4 of dark
3. What is also special of how Venus rotates? spin is clock-wise not counter
4. Why is Venus called the "evening star"? cuz you can see it at sunset
5. Describe the atmosphere of Venus: always has clouds in sky, full of a lot of
carbon-dioxide gases, with small rain-drops of sulfur acid (deadly)
6. What were Venera 7 and the Magellan? space probes that went to Venus
7. What is Maat Mons a large volcano on Venus
MERCURY
1. List the three main characteristics about Mercury: its the closest planet, the smallest planet and has no or little gases and gravity
2. What were the Mariner 10 and the Messenger? space probes to Mercury
3. What takes 88 days to orbit the Sun? Mercury
4. Describe Mercury's temperatures: warm in daytime, very cold at night;
highs near 430 C and at night - 170 C.
5. Does Mercury have a moon? No, Is Mercury as big as our Moon? Yes
6. Does Mercury have craters? Yes
JUPITER:
1. WHAT IS the largest planet? Jupiter
2. What is 2 and 1/2 times larger than all the other planets combined? Jupiter
3. What is the Great Red Spot? its a massive storm larger than Earth!
4. Describe the storm: its like a hurricane with 100 mile/ hr winds
and swirling winds
5. What are Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto? 4 main moons of Jupiter
6. Most of Jupiter is made up of what two gases? hydrogen and helium
7. Jupiter is mostly of gases, not land and those gases are mostly of liquid form having layers of clouds or liquid/ true or false? all true
SATURN:
1. What is the 6th planet from the Sun? Saturn
2. Is Saturn the only planet with rings? No, all outer ones do as well
3. What was or is Voyager I and II? space probes that took 1000 of pics of Saturn and its moon
4. Does Saturn have storms, lightning like Jupiter? yes
5. So, what are the rings of Saturn? They are chunks of ice and rock that orbit all around Saturn, there are 1000 s .
6. How many moons does Saturn have? 63 of them , most famous are Titan (larger than Mercury) and Rhea.
Uranus / Neptune
1. What are knows as the twin blue/green planets? Uranus/ Neptune
2. What is twice as far from the Sun as Saturn and 4 times bigger than Earth? Uranus
3. Does Uranus have rings? Yes What is the deadly poisionous gas in Uranus? methane
4. Uranus rotates fast, but how fast? once/ every 17 hrs
5 What is true about Uranus and its moons? There are 27 of them and most have lava flows, craters, and ice.
Neptune:
1. What has storms and many clouds and is actually maybe shrinking? Neptune
2. How was Neptune discovered? by laws of mathematics and how or why Uranus was orbiting strange. So something was changing its gravity and they thought it might be another planet near it, then they found Neptune.
3. how many moons does Neptune have? at least 13 moons
Pluto/ comets/ meteors/asteroids:
*** All answers are either Pluto, comets, meteors or asteroids:
1.What is smaller than Earth s Moon and yet has a surface and one moon of its own
2. What takes 248 years to orbit the Sun?
3. The brightest part of this object is its head but longest part is its tail, what is it?
4. most of these orbit between Jupiter and Saturn, some very large
5. these are particles that fall off of comets or asteroids and fall to Earth
6. also called a "belt" between Jupiter and Saturn
7. these large objects make big orbits far out in space beyond all the planets
8. The distance of these is so far away it might be 1000 times farther from the Sun than Earth is!!!!! (earth is 93 million miles away) = 93 million X 1000 = ???
9. What is also called a falling star?
10. Some people say a large one of these fell to Earth and killed the dinosaurs!
answers = 1. Pluto 2. Pluto 3. comet 4. asteroids 5.meteors 6. asteroids 7. asteroids 8. comets 9. meteors 10 asteroids
Mars:
1. Why is Mars called the "red planet"? due to iron rich rocks/ soil.
2. Could one walk on Mars and be similar to Earth's gravity? yes
3. Does Mars have clouds? yes, but very very thin and not that many
4. What makes up the ice caps of Mars? frozen water and frozen carbon-dioxide of the northern and southern poles of Mars / some might be underground
5. Does Mars have a tilted axis and season of winter/ summer? yes
6. Does Mars have dust-storms and melted to increasing flows of ice yes
7. What is Olympus Mons? a super large volcano on Mars
8. How big is Olympus Mons? as big as Missouri and 3 times taller than Mt Everest (the tallest mountain on Earth)
9. What is Phobos and Deimos? the 2 moons of Mars
10. Does Mars have enough oxygen to breath? no
11. Name 3 movies about Mars: answers will vary
VENUS
1. What god is Venus named from? the Goddess of Love/ Beauty
2. What is different or special about how Venus rotates? it goes very,very slow, only once complete spin every 8 months/ or 4 months of daylight/4 of dark
3. What is also special of how Venus rotates? spin is clock-wise not counter
4. Why is Venus called the "evening star"? cuz you can see it at sunset
5. Describe the atmosphere of Venus: always has clouds in sky, full of a lot of
carbon-dioxide gases, with small rain-drops of sulfur acid (deadly)
6. What were Venera 7 and the Magellan? space probes that went to Venus
7. What is Maat Mons a large volcano on Venus
MERCURY
1. List the three main characteristics about Mercury: its the closest planet, the smallest planet and has no or little gases and gravity
2. What were the Mariner 10 and the Messenger? space probes to Mercury
3. What takes 88 days to orbit the Sun? Mercury
4. Describe Mercury's temperatures: warm in daytime, very cold at night;
highs near 430 C and at night - 170 C.
5. Does Mercury have a moon? No, Is Mercury as big as our Moon? Yes
6. Does Mercury have craters? Yes
JUPITER:
1. WHAT IS the largest planet? Jupiter
2. What is 2 and 1/2 times larger than all the other planets combined? Jupiter
3. What is the Great Red Spot? its a massive storm larger than Earth!
4. Describe the storm: its like a hurricane with 100 mile/ hr winds
and swirling winds
5. What are Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto? 4 main moons of Jupiter
6. Most of Jupiter is made up of what two gases? hydrogen and helium
7. Jupiter is mostly of gases, not land and those gases are mostly of liquid form having layers of clouds or liquid/ true or false? all true
SATURN:
1. What is the 6th planet from the Sun? Saturn
2. Is Saturn the only planet with rings? No, all outer ones do as well
3. What was or is Voyager I and II? space probes that took 1000 of pics of Saturn and its moon
4. Does Saturn have storms, lightning like Jupiter? yes
5. So, what are the rings of Saturn? They are chunks of ice and rock that orbit all around Saturn, there are 1000 s .
6. How many moons does Saturn have? 63 of them , most famous are Titan (larger than Mercury) and Rhea.
Uranus / Neptune
1. What are knows as the twin blue/green planets? Uranus/ Neptune
2. What is twice as far from the Sun as Saturn and 4 times bigger than Earth? Uranus
3. Does Uranus have rings? Yes What is the deadly poisionous gas in Uranus? methane
4. Uranus rotates fast, but how fast? once/ every 17 hrs
5 What is true about Uranus and its moons? There are 27 of them and most have lava flows, craters, and ice.
Neptune:
1. What has storms and many clouds and is actually maybe shrinking? Neptune
2. How was Neptune discovered? by laws of mathematics and how or why Uranus was orbiting strange. So something was changing its gravity and they thought it might be another planet near it, then they found Neptune.
3. how many moons does Neptune have? at least 13 moons
Pluto/ comets/ meteors/asteroids:
*** All answers are either Pluto, comets, meteors or asteroids:
1.What is smaller than Earth s Moon and yet has a surface and one moon of its own
2. What takes 248 years to orbit the Sun?
3. The brightest part of this object is its head but longest part is its tail, what is it?
4. most of these orbit between Jupiter and Saturn, some very large
5. these are particles that fall off of comets or asteroids and fall to Earth
6. also called a "belt" between Jupiter and Saturn
7. these large objects make big orbits far out in space beyond all the planets
8. The distance of these is so far away it might be 1000 times farther from the Sun than Earth is!!!!! (earth is 93 million miles away) = 93 million X 1000 = ???
9. What is also called a falling star?
10. Some people say a large one of these fell to Earth and killed the dinosaurs!
answers = 1. Pluto 2. Pluto 3. comet 4. asteroids 5.meteors 6. asteroids 7. asteroids 8. comets 9. meteors 10 asteroids
