This document contains information about the SCI 209 Entire Course including documents for each week covering topics like oceanography, plate tectonics, seawater properties, and marine pollution. It provides links to course materials and assignments, including discussion questions, papers, and presentations on these topics. Students are instructed to review material on NOAA ocean exploration missions and relate them to issues like marine pollution for a group assignment.

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In this file of SCI 209 Entire Course you will find the next
docs:
SCI-209 Week 1 DQs.doc
SCI-209 Week 1 NOAA Activity Part One Ocean
Exploration.pptx
SCI-209 Week 2 DQs.doc
SCI-209 Week 2 The Creation of the Ocean Floor Paper.doc
SCI-209 Week 3 DQs.doc
SCI-209 Week 3 NOAA Activity Part Two Marine
Pollution.pptx
SCI-209 Week 3 Seawater Paper.doc
SCI-209 Week 4 DQs.doc
SCI-209 Week 4 Learning Team Assignment Outline.pptx
SCI-209 Week 4 Natural Ocean Disasters Paper.doc
SCI-209 Week 5 DQs.doc
SCI-209 Week 5 NOAA Activity Final Section Marine
Adaptations.pptx
SCI-209 Week 5 The Flow of Energy.doc
General Questions - General General Questions
SCI 209 Complete Course Oceanography
SCI 209 Week 1
SCI 209 Week 1 Individual Assignment NOAA Activity Part
One Ocean Exploration
Navigate to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA) site at http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/

2. Select Explore from the menu, then select Ocean Exploration
listed below Oceans. Choose an explorative mission that
took place at a marine sanctuary or an ecological preserve.
This is the specific web site to use as a launching point for
further research.
http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/topics/oceans/oceanex/
Review the chosen exploration and create a 10- to 12-slide
PowerPoint® presentation with following items. Online
Campus students must submit a 10- to 12-slide
PowerPoint® presentation with presenter notes. Be sure to
include the following in your presentation.
List the basic categories of Earth’s chemical composition and
physical properties, with an emphasis on how these factors
relate to the ocean.
Describe at least one of the early research theories about the
origins of life on Earth.
List the modern tools of research used in your chosen ocean
exploration.
List the goals and objectives of the mission and how it relates
to the National Ocean Service’s overarching mission.
List the areas to be explored by the mission.
What challenges did the team encounter?
Explain how the data was collected and what modern
technologies were used.
Explain whether the explorative mission was it successful in
its findings.
How can the information gathered from the mission benefit
the field of oceanography?
The oceans cover about 71% of the Earth's surface. They are
the most important natural resource that we have. All life on
Earth depends on our oceans. The climate is driven partly by

3. the circulation of the ocean's currents. The plants in the
ocean produce a great deal of the oxygen that we breathe.
There are countless food sources and products which come
out of the ocean. The oceans also play a role in the
transportation of our goods. For all of these reasons, they
should be protected from pollution, overharvesting and
human caused disasters.
The layers of the Earth can be classified in two different
ways, by chemical composition and physical properties.
Name the three layers of Earth based on chemical
composition and the five layers of Earth based on physical
properties. Why does the chemical composition model have
three layers and the physical property model have five
layers? Here is an excellent resource to use as a starting point
for your research. Use this in addition to your text. Click Next
to go through the presentation.
Oregon State. (n.d.). The Earth's Layers. Retrieved May 20,
2012
fromhttp://volcano.oregonstate.edu/vwdocs/vwlessons/less
ons/Earths_layers/Earths_layers1.html
SCI 209 Week 2
SCI 209 Week 2 Individual Assignment The Creation of the
Ocean Floor Paper
Prepare a 700- to 1,050-word paper describing the basic
theories associated with the creation of the ocean floor.
Include the following in your paper:
A minimum of two references are required.
Reference two additional outside sources, other than your
text, such as credible websites and articles that support your
findings.
Identify three different plate boundaries and list the

4. outstanding features of each boundary.
List one natural event that occurs as a direct result of plate
boundary interactions.
Compare and contrast ideas behind plate tectonics and the
theory of continental drift. Does one idea seem more
plausible than the other? If so, why? Base your findings on
the natural event you identified earlier in the paper.
The Earth's magnetic field creates invisible lines of force.
Throughout time, the polarity of the Earth has changed. We
know this by the orientation of magnetic crystals in rocks.
They are a record of what happened because as they were
formed from volcanoes, the crystals oriented themselves
according to the magnetic field on the Earth at the time. Not
only does magnetism tell us about the Earth's history, it is
also used by animals presently as a way to navigate the
oceans.
Briefly describe the current theories regarding marine
animals using the Earth’s magnetic field for navigation and
list at least one animal that theoretically uses this method.
Do you feel the theories regarding marine animals’ use of the
Earth’s magnetic field for navigation are accurate? Why do
you feel this way? How could this ability benefit humans?
Define lithogeneous, biogenous, hydrogenous, and
cosmogenous sediments. Why do you think it is important to
be able to differentiate between these?
SCI 209 Week 3
SCI 209 Week 3 Individual Assignment Seawater Paper
Prepare a 700- to 1,050-word paper in which you describe
the chemical properties of water, specifically seawater.
Research and choose two different methods that are
currently being used to convert seawater to drinkable water.

5. Include the following in your paper:
A minimum of one reference is required.
Describe the chemical and physical properties of seawater.
Describe two different methods used to convert seawater
into drinkable water.
List a county or region in which this method of conversion is
currently in use.
Identify the benefits and potential hazards of converting
seawater to drinkable water.
SCI 209 Week 3 Learning Team Assignment NOAA Activity
Part Two Marine Pollution
Collaborate: As a team, review each team member’s Week
One NOAA Activity Part One: Ocean Exploration mission and
findings.
Select one team member’s mission that specifically relates to
issues from marine pollution to use as the foundation for this
assignment.
Select an environmental agency that could directly benefit
from the research conducted in the mission.
Create a 10- to 12-slide PowerPoint® presentation that
includes the following items. Online Campus students must
submit a 10- to 12-slide PowerPoint® presentation with
presenter notes. Be sure to include the following in your
presentation.
A brief description of the chosen environmental group and
their mission statement
A brief description of the type of marine pollution addressed
in the mission
Which region the pollution is prevalent
How the pollution is affecting the surrounding ecosystem
What measures can be taken to avoid this type of pollutio...

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