Marine/ Ocean WebQuest
Using the tasksheet provided, use each website to complete the questions. You will need to follow all directions and work through the webpages to answer each question. Remember to answer each question in complete answers.
Author rkowaleski
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1Understanding Waves
Use this site to complete questions #1-2 about waves.
http://www.mos.org/oceans/motion/wind.html
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2Understanding Currents in the Ocean
Use this website to anser questions #4- 10.
http://www.mos.org/oceans/motion/currents.html
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3What causes tides?
Click on the button "launch Interactive". Move through the pages on the interactive screen and complete the questions # 11-15.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/earth/what-causes-the-tides.html
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4What makes our beaches change?
Use this site to complete question # 16- 18.
http://spinner.cofc.edu/CGOInquiry/longshoredrift.htm
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5Is the bottom of the ocean flat?
Use this website to complete questions #19- 28. MAKE SURE TO LABEL THE DIAGRAM!
http://www.mos.org/oceans/planet/features.html
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6Are oceans are growing? Huh!!
Use this information to answer #'s 25- 27.
http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/msese/earthsysflr/plates1.html
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7What does the bottom of the ocean floor look like?
this site may or may not work! You may have to download Quicktime to view many of the sites but if you have assess describe at least three unique features of the deep ocean, the mid- ocean ridge, plate tectonics, and hydrothermal vents.
http://www.ocean.udel.edu/extreme2002/
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8More on tectonic plates!!
Use the site to complete #28- 30.
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/interior/plate_tectonics.html
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9What types of technology to scientists use to understand the ocean?
Use this site to answer questions # 31- 33.
http://www.mos.org/oceans/scientist/sensing.html