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Oceanography

Learning Commons handouts

Handouts for downloading and printing

OCE 1001

 

OCE 1001

Cover of the Oceanography textbook

Essentials of Oceanography, tenth edition , by Trujillo and Thurman

Login to the Companion Website for Essentials of Oceanography, 10e for online resources. Use the access code that came with your new textbook.

   

Additional Resources for Oceanography Students

Study Games  

Study game for Oceanography Ch. 5-8 (vnd.ms-powerpoint 639.50 kB)

Study game for Oceanography Ch. 9-11,16 (vnd.ms-powerpoint 640.00 kB)

Instructions for Jeopardy games:    

Click on Slide Show from beginning

Slides will run on their own until Jeopardy game board appears

Click on $ amount under chosen category:- example: Earthquakes $300

Question will appear

Click on question slide for answer

Click on square box in lower left corner of answer slide and it will return to main board with categories and questions

Click on star for Final Jeopardy

Final Jeopardy is end of slide show.

   

Study game for Oceanography Ch. 12-15 (vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation 1.09 MB)

Study game for Oceanography Ch. 1-4 (vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation 753.64 kB)

Instructions for Who wants to be a millionaire:    

Play as powerpoint slide show

3 questions per slide

Answers appear on next slide

   
Practice quizzes  
Plate boundary quiz 

Soft Chalk Plate Boundary Quiz:  

Click on Hot Spot Quiz

Click on the geographic location on the map that matches the  type of plate boundary found at that location

   
Continental Margins Quiz

Soft Chalk Continental Margins Quizzes:

Click through flash cards to study about continental margins

   
Geological Timescale

Soft Chalk Geological Timescale:  

Click on Labeling activity

Complete the matching activity

   
Useful Links

Sea Floor Spreading animation from Earthguide at Scripps Institution of Oceanography

  A handout (pdf 220.66 kB)  to use with the seafloor animation

Subduction Animation from Earthguide at Scripps Institution of Oceanography

  A handout (pdf 235.83 kB)  to use with the subduction animation

Jetstream a page of ocean information from the national weather service

Greenhouse effect an explanation of the greenhouse effect from the University of California San Diego.

Density from Martha Marie,Ed.D. Anthony Carpi, Ph.D.

Global warming from National Geographic

USGS report on Shoreline Changes along the Gulf of Mexico

What are Phytoplankton

Ocean productivity- Intro

Ocean productivity-Photosynthesis part1

Ocean Biology: Phytoplankton in Biospheric Processes from NASA Educational Workshop SeaWiFS: Biology

Zooplankton from Marinebio.org