Oceanography Unit 1

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Across
  1. 1. The second layer of the physical structure of the Earth.
  2. 5. First ship built and equipped for oceanic research.
  3. 9. Where was Robert Ballard when he discovered the first hydrothermal vent community?
  4. 11. The study of past civilizations.
  5. 14. Plate boundaries that slide past each other.
  6. 15. Which Ferdinand was the first to circumnavigate the globe?
  7. 16. This kind of plate boundary creates rift valleys.
  8. 18. What is the name of the organization that studies the ocean and atmosphere?
Down
  1. 2. These vents form at the mid-ocean ridge.
  2. 3. Underwater mountain created by convergent plate boundaries.
  3. 4. What kind of organisms live in hydrothermal vents?
  4. 6. What controls tidal patterns in the ocean?
  5. 7. Last name of the scientist on the HMS Beagle expedition.
  6. 8. This is the deepest and largest ocean.
  7. 10. What kind of margin is on the US West Coast?
  8. 12. Deepest trench in the ocean.
  9. 13. The ocean absorbs what fraction of the Earth's CO2?
  10. 17. Name of an eroded volcanic island.