Cultural Geography Chapter 24 Test Review

Question 1

Which student of the ocean used his knowledge and theories to rescue a lost ship and its crew?

Accepted Answer

Matthew Maury

Question 2

Name the Confederate submarine that was raised and is being studied in Charleston, S.C.

Accepted Answer

Hunley

Question 3

Who charted ocean currents?

Accepted Answer

Matthew Maury

Question 4

Pieces of an ice pack that breaks off are called ....

Accepted Answer

ice floes

Question 5

Who found and studied the HMS Titanic?

Accepted Answer

Robert Ballard

Question 6

The bathypelagic zone of the ocean is the area into which light penetrates.

Accepted Answer

false

Question 7

Man has a God-given curiousity about his world that will never be fully quenched.

Accepted Answer

true

Question 8

Abyssal plains are the rugged, mountainous regions of the ocean floor.

Accepted Answer

false

Question 9

The Antarctic ice cap has pushed the land below sea level.

Accepted Answer

true

Question 10

Name the deepest point of the absolute deepest deep of the ocean.

Accepted Answer

Challenger Deep

Question 11

Jagged chunks of ice that break off (calve) from a glacier as it reaches the sea are called?

Accepted Answer

icebergs

Question 12

A solitary mountain that extends above the ice cap of Antarctica is called what?

Accepted Answer

a nunatak

Question 13

What is the open water between ice floes called?

Accepted Answer

a lead

Question 14

Which famous explorer flew a plane over the South Pole during his 1928/29 survey expedition?

Accepted Answer

Richard Byrd

Question 15

Sailed around Antarctica and discovered Peter I island

Accepted Answer

Thaddeus von Bellingshausen

Question 16

The boundary of the region of Antarctica is marked by which parallel of latitude.

Accepted Answer

66 1/2 degrees South

Question 17

What are isolated underwater volcanoes called?

Accepted Answer

seamounts

Question 18

The acronym SCUBA means...

Accepted Answer

self-contained underwater breathing apparatus

Question 19

Who built the "Turtle; the first submarine?

Accepted Answer

David Bushnell

Question 20

The waters around Antarctica are different from other oceans.

Accepted Answer

true

Question 21

What are the regions of the ocean that are open to the ships of all countries equally?

Accepted Answer

high seas

Question 22

What percentage of the earth's ice is locked in the Antarctic ice cap?

Accepted Answer

90%

Question 23

Name the first human to dive beneath the ice of Antarctica.

Accepted Answer

Jacques Cousteau

Question 24

First explorer to winter in Antarctica.

Accepted Answer

Carsten Borchgrevink

Question 25

Invented the SCUBA

Accepted Answer

Jacques Cousteau

Question 26

The acronym EEZ means...

Accepted Answer

exclusive economic zone

Question 27

Who discovered Cape Adare, Ross Island, McMurdo Bay, andthe Ross Ice Shelf?

Accepted Answer

Sir James Clark Ross

Question 28

Alexander the Great might have been the first person to go underwater in a diving contraption.

Accepted Answer

true

Question 29

Who descended into Challenger Deep with Don Walsh in a bathyscaphe?

Accepted Answer

Jacques Piccard

Question 30

What are the submerged edges of a continent called?

Accepted Answer

continental shelf

Question 31

More than 3/4 of an iceberg is above the surface of the water.

Accepted Answer

false

Question 32

What are the steep sides of the continents' shelves called?

Accepted Answer

continental slope

Question 33

His expedition to the South Pole ended 97 miles from his goal so he could save his men..

Accepted Answer

Ernest Shackleton

Question 34

Name the "fifth ocean" that the International Hydrographic Organization designated.

Accepted Answer

Southern Ocean

Question 35

Which mountain range splits the 2 main parts of Antarctica?

Accepted Answer

Transantarctic Mountains

Question 36

Member of Shackleton's 1908-9 expedition; later discovered Shackleton's ice shelf.

Accepted Answer

Sir Douglas Mawson

Question 37

Who descended below the photic zone in a bathysphere with Otis Barton?

Accepted Answer

William Beebe

Question 38

East Antarctica has an ice cap that is over a mile deep

Accepted Answer

true

Question 39

Scientists from the NOAA helped recover what historic shipwreck in 2002?

Accepted Answer

USS Monitor

Question 40

Name the English Explorer who sailed around Antarctica in 1773 searching a continent.

Accepted Answer

James Cook

Question 41

Reached the South Pole about a month after the first person reached it.

Accepted Answer

Sir Robert Scott

Question 42

What is the name of Antarctica's largest settlement?

Accepted Answer

McMurdo Station

Question 43

First human to reach the South Pole.

Accepted Answer

Roald Amundsen

Question 44

The Antarctic, unlike the Arctic, never has a time when the sun does not set.

Accepted Answer

false

Cultural Geography Chapter 24 Test Review

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Cultural Geography Chapter 24 Test Review

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