Ashenfelter Marine Ecology Exploration

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  1. 4. this woman mapped the seafloor and discovered the mid ocean ridges
  2. 5. Research facility and school in San Diego
  3. 7. the government agency that pays attention to the weather, climate, and fisheries.
  4. 9. the numbers on a chart in the water represent the water level at mean/average
  5. 11. the ____ to a star or the sun can be measured to help determine location at sea
  6. 15. the "lines" that divide the earth that are about East/West location
  7. 17. This "friend to the sailor" made it so there are load lines on ships
  8. 18. first developed by Jacques Cousteau and engineer Émile Gagnan
  9. 19. a tool for measuring the angles of stars
  10. 20. ____ spring was the name of Rachel Carson's famous book on environmental harm of chemicals
  11. 22. the "lines" that divide earth and start at zero at the equator and go north and south
  12. 23. in the water have numbers, sometimes sounds, can be red or green and help direct vessel traffic
  13. 25. the “mother of marine conservation in the Caribbean.”
  14. 26. using sound to detect things below a ship or map seafloor features
Down
  1. 1. essentially a submersible for one person, looks like a space suit
  2. 2. fancy name for a clock that can go on a vessel - important for determining longitude
  3. 3. tool made originally in China that uses the magnetic field to find north. Important in fog especially.
  4. 6. people from the Pacific Islands who used birds, waves, stars, swell, flotsom to navigate
  5. 8. most likely the first European peoples to explore to the Americas
  6. 10. President of Mission Blue which is an organization determined to protect the ocean and educate people on protecting the marine ecosystem.
  7. 12. made important invertebrate embryology discoveries
  8. 13. a very famous human occupied submersible
  9. 14. an Earth-orbiting satellite that was used in oceanographic telepresence
  10. 16. is an vehicle that is preprogrammed to dive and collect data then surface
  11. 19. Lots of animals named after him around here!
  12. 21. is an underwater vehicle that is driven by a pilot on board a ship and the vehicle is tethered to the vessel
  13. 24. Katy and Roger Payne discovered that the sounds of whales were ___