what is the world ocean and how is it explored?
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What is the world ocean and how is it explored?. By: Mr. D’Angelone. Learning Objectives. Students will describe the world ocean. Students will explain what is meant by oceanography. Students will describe three ways scientists explore the oceans. Key Terms. world ocean oceanography - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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What is the world ocean and how is it explored?
By: Mr. D’Angelone
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Learning Objectives
• Students will describe the world ocean.
• Students will explain what is meant by oceanography.
• Students will describe three ways scientists explore the oceans.
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Key Terms
• world ocean
• oceanography
• sonar
• submersible
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The Water Planet
• About 75 percent of Earth's surface is covered with water.
• Most of this is salt water.
• This large body of salt water is known as the world ocean.
• Earth is the only planet in the solar system that has a covering of liquid water.
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Because of its great amounts of liquid water,
Earth is often known as the blue planet.
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Divisions of the World Ocean • The world ocean is divided into three major
bodies of salt water, also called oceans. • These are the Atlantic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean,
and the Indian Ocean. • The word sea is sometimes used as another
name for ocean. • It also refers to a smaller body of water
connected to or near an ocean.• A gulf is a large area of ocean, larger than a bay,
reaching into land.
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The World Ocean
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Size and Depth • The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the world's
oceans. • More than half of Earth's ocean water is in the
Pacific Ocean. • The Pacific is also Earth's deepest ocean. • Its average depth is 4.3 km (2.6 mi).• The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest ocean. • Several seas and gulfs are part of the Atlantic
Ocean. • Its average depth is 3.3 km (2.0 mi).
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Size and Depth (2)
• The Indian Ocean is the smallest ocean.
• It is deeper than the Atlantic Ocean, but not as deep as the Pacific.
• The average depth of the Indian Ocean is 3.8 km (2.3 mi).
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Oceanography
• The study of Earth's oceans is called oceanography.
• Scientists who study the oceans and ocean life are called oceanographers.
• An oceanographer might specialize in the study of the oceans' depths, coral reefs, or the geography of the ocean floor.
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Deep-Sea Drilling • Samples of rock from the ocean floor can
be obtained by drilling. • Studying these samples allows scientists
to learn more about the ocean floor. • The Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP) was
an important ocean research program that ended in 1983. (Glomar Challenger)
• The DSDP was replaced in 1985 by another program called the Ocean Drilling Program (ODP). (JOIDES Resolution)
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Sonar
• Scientists can map the ocean floor by using sonar.
• The word sonar comes from the letters in sound navigation and ranging.
• Sonar is an echo-sounding system. • Sound waves travel through water at
about 1,500 m/s. • A transmitter bounces a sound wave off
the ocean floor.
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Sonar (2)
• The returning sound wave, or echo, is picked up by a receiver.
• Scientists can measure the time it takes for the sound wave to return.
• This number can be used to calculate the depth of the ocean floor.
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Sonar uses echoes of sound waves.
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Submersibles
• Scientists also study the oceans by traveling in underwater research vessels called submersibles.
• One of the first submersibles to be developed was a bathysphere.
• The bathysphere remained attached to the research ship.
• Therefore, its movements were limited.
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Submersibles (2)
• Another kind of submersible is called a bathyscaph.
• A bathyscaph is not attached to anything.
• It can hold one pilot and two scientists.
• Robot submersibles equipped with under water cameras can reach great depths and stay there for long periods of time.
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A Bathyscaph
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Checking Concepts
1. About how much of Earth's surface is covered with water?
2. What are the three major oceans?
3. Which of Earth's oceans is the deepest?
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Answers
1. 75%
2. Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian
3. The Pacific
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