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geodog55

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Which man was the first to publish a reasonably accurate chart of an ocean current?
 a. Benjamin Franklin
 b. John Harrison
 c. Eratosthenes of Cyrene
 d. Captain James Cook

Question 2

Glomar Challenger is known mainly for:
 a. being owned and operated simultaneously by four governmental agencies.
 b. being the first nuclear powered scientific research vessel.
 c. taking the first complete cores of deep-sea sediments.
 d. being the first modern scientific survey ship to circumnavigate the globe.



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Answer to Question 1

a

Answer to Question 2

c





 

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