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What percentage of the Earth's surface is covered by salt water?
71%
75%
50%
90%
82%
What field of science deals with the great importance of the seas to life on Earth?
Oceanography
Geopolitics
Geography
Navigation
Geology
Which of the following is NOT one of the six major ocean basins?
Antarctic
Arctic
North Pacific
Indian
South Atlantic
Which of the following terms describes a body of water that connects two or more inlets or parts of a sea?
Sound
Bay
Gulf
Waterway
Ocean
Pockets of seas that reach into the continents are called what?
Gulfs
Sound
Bay
Waterway
Ocean
The sea lanes in which ocean are the most traveled in the world?
The Atlantic
The Pacific
The Arctic
The Indian
The Antarctic
The heaviest amount of bulk cargo traffic is carried out of what Gulf?
The Persian Gulf
The Gulf of Mexico
The Gulf of Aden
The Gulf of Riga
The Gulf of Sidra
Which of the following is an example of an island along the North Atlantic portion of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge?
Iceland
England
Ireland
Ascension Island
Tristan da Cunha
What are currently the largest mining operations in the Atlantic ocean?
Mining for sands and gravels along the Atlantic seaboard of the U.S.
Mining for diamonds along the Eastern coast of Mexico.
Mining for gold off the East Coast of Brazil.
Mining for zinc off the East Coast of Canada.
Mining for phosphates off the coast of Iceland.
The largest single offshore mining operation in the world is located where?
The Bahamas.
Iceland
Texas
Norway
Brazil
Which of the following is NOT one of the major U.S. Atlantic ports?
Miami
Boston
New York
Baltimore
Norfolk
Where is the largest and busiest Atlantic port in Western Europe?
Antwerp, Belgium
Southampton, England
Liverpool, England
Rotterdam, Holland
Hamburg, Germany
To go from the Atlantic Ocean to sea ports in Poland, through which of the following straits must a ship pass?
Skagerrak
Gibraltar
Turkish Straits
Malacca
Hormuz
While the Caribbean basin generally has fewer mineral resources than other ocean basins, what has been taken in significant quantities from this basin?
Oil
Gold
Iron
Aluminum
Aragonite
Where is most of the shrimp consumed in the U.S. caught?
The U.S. and Mexican Gulf Coasts.
The Mexican and Venezuelan Gulf Coasts.
The Alaskan Coast
The Northeastern U.S. Seacoast
Off the coast of Iceland
Which of the following is the major U.S. naval base on the Gulf Coast?
There are no major U.S. naval bases on the Gulf Coast.
Pensacola
Mobile
Galveston
Tampa
Which of the following is NOT a U.S. Navy facility in the Gulf of Mexico area?
Kings Bay
Guantanamo Bay
Pensacola
Corpus Christi
Roosevelt Roads
The Panama Canal was turned over to Panama in what year?
1999
1990
1890
1945
1978
In 1958, which U.S. submarine became the first vessel ever to reach the North Pole under the ice?
The USS Nautilus
The USS Neptune
The USS Ohio
The USS Enterprise
The USS Scorpion
Which body of water near the Mediterranean Sea has such high mineral content that it supports little life?
The Black Sea
The Red Sea
The Yellow Sea
The Dead Sea
The Sea of Marmara
Where is the homeport of the U.S. Sixth Fleet?
Gaeta, Italy
Naples, Italy
Norfolk, Virginia
Izmir, Turkey
Toulon, France
What environmental effect did the building of the Aswan Dam in Egypt have?
It destroyed the fishing industry at the mouth of the Nile river.
It caused the fishing industry off the coast of Egypt to flourish.
It had no effect one way or another.
It caused the mineral content of the Mediterranean Sea to double.
It greatly reduced the mineral content of the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the name of the waterway between the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea?
The Suez canal
The Panama canal
The Dead Sea
The Black Sea
The Sea of Marmara
What are the names of the two Atlantic basins?
The Eastern and Western
The Northern and Southern
The Eastern and Southern
The Northern and Western
The Lower and Upper
Which of the following European ports is one of the two that handle most of the support traffic for the U.S. land forces in Germany?
Bremerhaven
Murmansk
Liverpool
Riga
Toulon
Which Caribbean nation is a significant worry for the United States?
Cuba
Puerto Rico
Grenada
The Dominican Republic
Jamaica
Of the major oceans of the world, which is the smallest?
Arctic
Atlantic
Pacific
Indian
Antarctic
The Beaufort Sea is located in what ocean?
Arctic
Pacific
Atlantic
Indian
Antarctic
The oil spill from the tanker Exxon Valdez occurred in what Gulf?
The Gulf of Alaska
The Persian Gulf
The Gulf of Sidra
The Gulf of Mexico
The Gulf of Aden
Baffin Bay lies between what two countries?
Greenland and Canada
The U.S. and Russia
Greenland and Iceland
Canada and the U.S.
Mexico and the U.S.
What is the name of the deepest trench in the Mediterranean Sea?
The Hellenic Trough
The Abyssal Plain
The Cayman Trench
The Puerto Rico Trench
The South Sandwich Trench
Why is the G-I-UK Gap important to NATO planners.
Because the Russian Northern Fleet would need to go through this area to get to the Atlantic sealanes.
Because they would need to take large amphibious forces through these waters.
Because it is the deepest part of the Atlantic ocean.
Because of the large number of Russian naval ports in this area.
This gap is not of importance to NATO planners.
The volcano Mount Pelee erupted in 1902 killing over 30,000 people. On what island is this volcano located?