Open Microsoft Word. Put your name, period and date in the upper right hand corner and save Document 1 as Oceanography Treasure Hunt. 
Note: Be sure to number your answers!

Link to http://edweb.tusd1.org/Sabino/library

Enter The Sabercat Library (right column). Link to Search Engines. Link to Google.com.

Minimize the Google search engine screen and open Internet Explorer again. Open the Oceanography Treasure Hunt so you will always have this one to refer to as you do the hunt. Dive deep!

Open the Google screen and begin. In the search box, input topic: ocean.

1.         How many hits did you get? ________________

In the search box, input topic and focus: ocean tides?

2.         How many hits did you get? ________________

In the search box, input topic and focus in quotes: “ocean tides”

3.                  How many hits did you get? ________________

Note: Topic = ocean and Focus = red tides would look like this: ocean “red tides”

Notice the domain names in the first 12 hits: .ca, .edu, .gov, .org, .com
(Universities in Canada do not use .edu) Link to the Okanagan University College Web site (in Canada - .ca) for tide information.

4.                  What is the definition of a tide? ________________

Note: You must apply note-making strategies to put information in your own words. Input single words, short phrases, lists, abbreviations, or a link to an illustration. Copy and paste numbers or names for accuracy; other answers must be in your own words.

Using the “Find (on this page)” feature under Edit, input: primary force.

5.                  What is the primary force that is responsible for the Earth’s tides?  ________________

Return to Google.com. Search for Web sites about ocean waves. Read the annotations.

6.       Find a site that will tell you about how ocean waves are measured. The height of a wave is the distance between the wave ________________ and the wave   ________________.

7.       During a storm, wave heights may exceed   ______ feet!

8.                  What is the name of this site? ________________

9.                  What is the name of the organization that sponsors this page? ________________

10.              When was it last updated? ________________

11.              Do you think this is an authoritative site? (Can you trust this information?) Why or why not? ________________

Return to Google.com. Search for Web sites about currents in the ocean. Read the annotations. You may need to visit more than one site to find the answers to the next two questions.

12.              When does a gyre form? ________________

13.              What causes the circulation of the gyres to be clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and counterclockwise in the Southern Hemisphere? ________________

Return to Google.com. Search for Coriolis effect or Coriolis force.

14.              What causes the Coriolis effect or Coriolis force”? ________________

15.              Do sinks and toilets in the Northern Hemisphere really drain in a clockwise fashion? Do sinks and toilets in the Southern Hemisphere really drain in a counter clockwise fashion? Justify your answer by giving the URL where you found the answer, and give your opinion of the sponsoring organization or person’s authority. ________________

Return to Google.com. Search for __________ Ocean Geography to fill in this table. Hint 1: Ocean Planet (Smithsonian) is a good site. Hint 2: Make a table on your Word document, or copy and paste this one into your document. Fill in the blanks.

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EXTRA Credit: Find information on Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, bioluminescence, and/or symbiosis. Did you develop a focus to go along with these topics?

BEFORE YOU PRINT: Make sure you go to File, Page Set-Up, and set the margins for .5/.5/1./1. When you are ready to print, go to File, Print, and set the LibLab printer!