Using specific examples, describe how advances in navigation and ...

[silviawilliams41]

Using specific examples, describe how advances in navigation and voyaging relate to the advent of marine science.

Question 2

The addition of salts derived from the mantle and weathering rocks are unable to balance the amount of minerals being bound in the sediments.
  Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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Answer to Question 1

Early exploration of the ocean was primarily for economic and political reasons.
The Polynesians and Europeans quickly discovered that the ocean was a vast expanse that was both wondrous and plentiful. Advances in navigation, such as the compass or the chronometer, allowed explorers to travel around the ocean with much greater efficiency. In the mid to late 1700s, Captain James Cook was the first to use the knowledge the voyagers before him had compiled and applied this information to the study of the ocean. Cook was both an explorer and scientists and within 100 years of his first voyage in 1768, the first fully organized, scientific expedition was launched (Challenger expedition in 1872). Economists, traders, explorers, and scientists learned very early on that an understanding of the ocean could better all of their interests. Governments quickly realized there were great profits to be had from the natural resources in the ocean and started investing in oceanographic exploration.

Answer to Question 2

False

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