Unit 2-Origins of the Earth/History of Oceanography

Main Questions

1. What is the Big Bang Theory and what evidence is there to support the theory?
2. What is the Nebular Hypothesis?
3. How did the Earth form?
4. How did the oceans and atmosphere form?
5. Why do we speak European languages?
6. What are the major oceans?

Main Concepts

I. The formation of the Universe

• A. The Big Bang Theory
• B. Evidence

II. The formation of the Solar System

• A. The Nebular Hypothesis

III. The formation of the Earth

• A. Protoearth

IV. The formation of the atmosphere and Oceans

• A. Water from space
• B. Outgassing
• C. Condensation

V. The Oceans of the World

• A. Arctic
• B. Indian
• C. Atlantic
• D. Pacific

VI. Eary Ocean Exploration

• A. Polynesians
• B. Indians
• C. Chinese
• D. Europeans

Vocabulary

• light year, red shift, big bang, Solar System, Nebular Hypothesis, protoearth, density, atmosphere, ocean, salt, salinity, outgassing, core, crust, mantle, fusion, galaxy, geologic time scale, hydrothermal vent, milky way, nebula, ozone, planetesimal, and universe.

Schedule

• Week 2
• Week 3

Documents

• Week 2 Quiz
• Formations Flipbook
• Notbook Binder Check 1 and 2

PowerPoints

• History of Oceanography

Self Check Quizzes

• Self Check Quizzes
  • Regular Quiz-Click on "Understanding the Concepts" in the left pane
  • Visual Quiz-Click on "Visualizing Oceanography" in the left pane
  • Fill in the Blanks Quiz-Click on "Fill in the Blanks" in the left pane

Links

• Early Earth-National Geographic (word document)