What is Oceanography? What are its sub-fields?

What are some of the historical uses of the ocean?

What was the importance of the Challenger Expedition?

What are some of the modern uses of oceanography?

What are the main theories describing the formation of the Earth and Universe?

Describe the theories explaining the origin of the oceans

Where else in our solar system might there be oceans? How do we know?

What is the general distribution of Earth’s water? How does it move from one reservoir to another?

Why do we experience seasons?

What are the five oceans on Earth, and where are they located?

What are the layers of the Earth?

Describe continental drift and the evidence used to support it

Describe seafloor spreading and the evidence used to support it

What are the three types of plate boundaries? Give an example of each

What determines the width of continental margins?

What features differ along passive and active margins?

What is the typical profile along a passive margin?

What are common features of the ocean floor?

Describe the process by which a guyot may form

How is ocean sediment classified?