Chapter 19: Section 1: Directed Reading Pages 471-474

Chapter 19: Section 1: Directed Reading Pages 471-474

<p> Handout 19-1 Name______Period______</p><p>Chapter 19: Section 1: Directed Reading Pages 471-474</p><p>Section: The Water Planet (page 471) ______1. The body of salt water covering nearly three-quarters of the Earth’s surface is called the a. Earth’s ocean. b. Pacific Ocean. c. salt-water ocean. d. global ocean</p><p>______2. How many of the known planets have a covering of liquid water similar to that of Earth? a. one b. three c. all d. none</p><p>______3. What percentage of water on Earth does the global ocean contain? a. 50% b. 85% c. 97% d. 100%</p><p>DIVISIONS OF THE GLOBAL OCEAN (page 471)</p><p>______4. The largest ocean on Earth’s surface is the a. Atlantic Ocean. b. Pacific Ocean. c. Indian Ocean. d. Southern Ocean.</p><p>______5. Earth’s deepest ocean is the a. Atlantic Ocean. b. Pacific Ocean. c. Indian Ocean. d. Southern Ocean.</p><p>EXPLORATION OF THE OCEAN (page 472)</p><p>______6. The study of the physical and chemical make-up of the ocean as well a its life-forms is called a. oceanography. b. oceanology. c. sedimentology. d. oceano-biology</p><p>7. What valuable information do scientists gather from samples drilled by JOIDES Resolution?</p><p>8. How fast do the sound waves from a sonar transmitter travel through sea water? ______.</p><p>9. What is the difference between a bathyscaph and a bathysphere?</p><p>10. Submersibles have helped scientists make exciting discoveries about the ______.</p><p>11. What characteristics of the deep ocean made it unlikely that oceanographers would discover life forms?</p><p>Chapter 19 Section 1 Review Pg’s 471 - 474</p><p>1. Describe two ways that oceanographers study the ocean. 2. Explain how sonar works.</p><p>3. List three types of submersibles.</p><p>4. Why are submarine robots more practical for deep-ocean research than submersibles designed to carry people are?</p><p>Study Notes for Chapter 19: The Ocean Basins Directions: Use the following notes to prepare for the test. Chapter 19 Section 1: The Water Planet 1. Earth’s oceans cover about ______th’s of Earth’s ______. 2. Of all the water on Earth, ______is found in the ______. 3. The ______and largest ocean on Earth is the ______. 4. ______, ______, and ______are tools used by scientists to study the deep ocean. 5. A piece of sediment collected by drilling is a ______. 6. Scientists use ______to calculate the ______of the ocean floor. 7. ______uses sound waves to measure the sea floor. 8. To see the bottom of the ocean for him or herself, a scientist would use a ______.</p>

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