Test Bank For
Investigating Oceanography 2026 Release by Keith Sverdrup, Raphael Kudela
Chapters 1-16
Chapter 01 Test Bank – Static Key
1. Identify all of the planets that are rich in metals and rocky materials.
__ Saturn
x Mercury
x Venus
__ Uranus
__ Jupiter
x Earth
__ Neptune
x Mars
Blooms: 1. Remember
Chapter: 01 The Water Planet
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: Describe the origin of the solar system.
Section: 01.01 Cosmic Beginnings
Topic: Cosmic Beginnings
2. Identify all of the planets that are rich in ices of water, ammonia, and methane.
x Saturn
__ Mercury
__ Venus
x_ Uranus
x Jupiter
__ Earth
x Neptune
_ Mars
Blooms: 1. Remember
Chapter: 01 The Water Planet
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: Describe the origin of the solar system.
Section: 01.01 Cosmic Beginnings
Topic: Cosmic Beginnings
3. If the axial rotation of Earth slowed, the day-to-night temperature variation on Earth's surface would
decrease.
FALSE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: 1. Remember
Chapter: 01 The Water Planet
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: Natural time periods.
Section: 01.02 Earth's Age and Time
Topic: Earth's Age and Time
4. Radiometric dating is based on the rate at which a radioactive isotope decays.
TRUE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: 1. Remember
Chapter: 01 The Water Planet
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: Geologic time.
Section: 01.02 Earth's Age and Time
Topic: Earth's Age and Time
5. When viewed from above the South Pole, Earth rotates clockwise.
,TRUE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: 1. Remember
Chapter: 01 The Water Planet
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: Calculate the difference in time between two locations of known longitude.
Section: 01.04 Where on Earth Are You?
Topic: Where on Earth Are You?
6. When crossing the international date line from east to west, the date increases by one day.
TRUE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: 1. Remember
Chapter: 01 The Water Planet
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: Calculate the difference in time between two locations of known longitude.
Section: 01.04 Where on Earth Are You?
Topic: Where on Earth Are You?
7. Determination of latitude requires that time be kept very accurately.
FALSE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: 1. Remember
Chapter: 01 The Water Planet
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: Define and sketch lines of latitude and longitude.
Section: 01.04 Where on Earth Are You?
Topic: Where on Earth Are You?
8. All latitude circles are great circles.
FALSE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: 1. Remember
Chapter: 01 The Water Planet
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: Define and sketch lines of latitude and longitude.
Section: 01.04 Where on Earth Are You?
Topic: Where on Earth Are You?
9. Earth turns westward as it rotates on its axis.
FALSE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: 1. Remember
Chapter: 01 The Water Planet
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: Calculate the difference in time between two locations of known longitude.
Section: 01.04 Where on Earth Are You?
Topic: Where on Earth Are You?
10. The residence time of water in the atmosphere is equal to the residence time of water in the oceans.
FALSE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: 1. Remember
Chapter: 01 The Water Planet
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: Reservoirs and residence time.
Section: 01.06 Earth Is a Water Planet
Topic: Earth Is a Water Planet
11. The hydrologic cycle requires an excess of evaporation over precipitation as averaged over the world's
oceans.
TRUE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: 1. Remember
Chapter: 01 The Water Planet
Gradable: automatic
, Learning Outcome: Explain the Hydrologic Cycle.
Section: 01.06 Earth Is a Water Planet
Topic: Earth Is a Water Planet
12. The middle latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere have about equal areas devoted to both land and
water.
TRUE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: 1. Remember
Chapter: 01 The Water Planet
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: Water on Earth's surface.
Section: 01.06 Earth Is a Water Planet
Topic: Earth Is a Water Planet
13. The sidereal day is more constant and shorter than the solar day.
TRUE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: 1. Remember
Chapter: 01 The Water Planet
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: Describe natural time periods.
Section: 01.02 Earth's Age and Time
Topic: Earth's Age and Time
14. Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars are smaller in size and closer to the sun than Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus,
or Neptune.
TRUE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: 1. Remember
Chapter: 01 The Water Planet
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: Describe the origin of the solar system.
Section: 01.01 Cosmic Beginnings
Topic: Cosmic Beginnings
15. There is more land located in the Northern Hemisphere than in the Southern Hemisphere.
TRUE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: 1. Remember
Chapter: 01 The Water Planet
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: Water on Earth's surface.
Section: 01.06 Earth Is a Water Planet
Topic: Earth Is a Water Planet
16. Water is moved through the hydrologic cycle at different rates and in different directions in each climate
zone.
TRUE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: 1. Remember
Chapter: 01 The Water Planet
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: Reservoirs and residence time.
Section: 01.06 Earth Is a Water Planet
Topic: Earth Is a Water Planet
17. Our solar system is part of the Milky Way galaxy.
TRUE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: 1. Remember
Chapter: 01 The Water Planet
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: Describe the origin of the solar system.
Section: 01.01 Cosmic Beginnings
Topic: Cosmic Beginnings
, 18. The Milky Way galaxy formed from an expanding nebula.
FALSE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: 1. Remember
Chapter: 01 The Water Planet
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: Explain the "Big Bang" theory of the origin of the universe, and describe its structure.
Section: 01.01 Cosmic Beginnings
Topic: Cosmic Beginnings
19. The Milky Way galaxy contains about 200 billion stars.
TRUE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: 1. Remember
Chapter: 01 The Water Planet
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: Explain the "Big Bang" theory of the origin of the universe, and describe its structure.
Section: 01.01 Cosmic Beginnings
Topic: Cosmic Beginnings
20. Earth rotates on its axis from west to east.
TRUE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: 1. Remember
Chapter: 01 The Water Planet
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: Calculate the difference in time between two locations of known longitude.
Section: 01.04 Where on Earth Are You?
Topic: Where on Earth Are You?
21. On average water in a river will have a longer residence time than water in the oceans.
FALSE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: 1. Remember
Chapter: 01 The Water Planet
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: Describe the Hydrologic Cycle.
Section: 01.06 Earth Is a Water Planet
Topic: Earth Is a Water Planet
22. The magnetic field surrounding Jupiter's moons may be the result of salt water bodies.
TRUE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: 1. Remember
Chapter: 01 The Water Planet
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: Describe the origin of the solar system.
Section: 01.01 Cosmic Beginnings
Topic: Cosmic Beginnings
23. If a sea exists on Jupiter's moon, Europa, it is probably much smaller and shallower than the Earth's
ocean.
FALSE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: 1. Remember
Chapter: 01 The Water Planet
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: Describe the origin of the solar system.
Section: 01.01 Cosmic Beginnings
Topic: Cosmic Beginnings
24. There is no evidence of a past or present ocean on any planet but Earth.
FALSE
Investigating Oceanography 2026 Release by Keith Sverdrup, Raphael Kudela
Chapters 1-16
Chapter 01 Test Bank – Static Key
1. Identify all of the planets that are rich in metals and rocky materials.
__ Saturn
x Mercury
x Venus
__ Uranus
__ Jupiter
x Earth
__ Neptune
x Mars
Blooms: 1. Remember
Chapter: 01 The Water Planet
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: Describe the origin of the solar system.
Section: 01.01 Cosmic Beginnings
Topic: Cosmic Beginnings
2. Identify all of the planets that are rich in ices of water, ammonia, and methane.
x Saturn
__ Mercury
__ Venus
x_ Uranus
x Jupiter
__ Earth
x Neptune
_ Mars
Blooms: 1. Remember
Chapter: 01 The Water Planet
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: Describe the origin of the solar system.
Section: 01.01 Cosmic Beginnings
Topic: Cosmic Beginnings
3. If the axial rotation of Earth slowed, the day-to-night temperature variation on Earth's surface would
decrease.
FALSE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: 1. Remember
Chapter: 01 The Water Planet
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: Natural time periods.
Section: 01.02 Earth's Age and Time
Topic: Earth's Age and Time
4. Radiometric dating is based on the rate at which a radioactive isotope decays.
TRUE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: 1. Remember
Chapter: 01 The Water Planet
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: Geologic time.
Section: 01.02 Earth's Age and Time
Topic: Earth's Age and Time
5. When viewed from above the South Pole, Earth rotates clockwise.
,TRUE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: 1. Remember
Chapter: 01 The Water Planet
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: Calculate the difference in time between two locations of known longitude.
Section: 01.04 Where on Earth Are You?
Topic: Where on Earth Are You?
6. When crossing the international date line from east to west, the date increases by one day.
TRUE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: 1. Remember
Chapter: 01 The Water Planet
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: Calculate the difference in time between two locations of known longitude.
Section: 01.04 Where on Earth Are You?
Topic: Where on Earth Are You?
7. Determination of latitude requires that time be kept very accurately.
FALSE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: 1. Remember
Chapter: 01 The Water Planet
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: Define and sketch lines of latitude and longitude.
Section: 01.04 Where on Earth Are You?
Topic: Where on Earth Are You?
8. All latitude circles are great circles.
FALSE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: 1. Remember
Chapter: 01 The Water Planet
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: Define and sketch lines of latitude and longitude.
Section: 01.04 Where on Earth Are You?
Topic: Where on Earth Are You?
9. Earth turns westward as it rotates on its axis.
FALSE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: 1. Remember
Chapter: 01 The Water Planet
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: Calculate the difference in time between two locations of known longitude.
Section: 01.04 Where on Earth Are You?
Topic: Where on Earth Are You?
10. The residence time of water in the atmosphere is equal to the residence time of water in the oceans.
FALSE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: 1. Remember
Chapter: 01 The Water Planet
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: Reservoirs and residence time.
Section: 01.06 Earth Is a Water Planet
Topic: Earth Is a Water Planet
11. The hydrologic cycle requires an excess of evaporation over precipitation as averaged over the world's
oceans.
TRUE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: 1. Remember
Chapter: 01 The Water Planet
Gradable: automatic
, Learning Outcome: Explain the Hydrologic Cycle.
Section: 01.06 Earth Is a Water Planet
Topic: Earth Is a Water Planet
12. The middle latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere have about equal areas devoted to both land and
water.
TRUE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: 1. Remember
Chapter: 01 The Water Planet
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: Water on Earth's surface.
Section: 01.06 Earth Is a Water Planet
Topic: Earth Is a Water Planet
13. The sidereal day is more constant and shorter than the solar day.
TRUE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: 1. Remember
Chapter: 01 The Water Planet
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: Describe natural time periods.
Section: 01.02 Earth's Age and Time
Topic: Earth's Age and Time
14. Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars are smaller in size and closer to the sun than Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus,
or Neptune.
TRUE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: 1. Remember
Chapter: 01 The Water Planet
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: Describe the origin of the solar system.
Section: 01.01 Cosmic Beginnings
Topic: Cosmic Beginnings
15. There is more land located in the Northern Hemisphere than in the Southern Hemisphere.
TRUE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: 1. Remember
Chapter: 01 The Water Planet
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: Water on Earth's surface.
Section: 01.06 Earth Is a Water Planet
Topic: Earth Is a Water Planet
16. Water is moved through the hydrologic cycle at different rates and in different directions in each climate
zone.
TRUE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: 1. Remember
Chapter: 01 The Water Planet
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: Reservoirs and residence time.
Section: 01.06 Earth Is a Water Planet
Topic: Earth Is a Water Planet
17. Our solar system is part of the Milky Way galaxy.
TRUE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: 1. Remember
Chapter: 01 The Water Planet
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: Describe the origin of the solar system.
Section: 01.01 Cosmic Beginnings
Topic: Cosmic Beginnings
, 18. The Milky Way galaxy formed from an expanding nebula.
FALSE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: 1. Remember
Chapter: 01 The Water Planet
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: Explain the "Big Bang" theory of the origin of the universe, and describe its structure.
Section: 01.01 Cosmic Beginnings
Topic: Cosmic Beginnings
19. The Milky Way galaxy contains about 200 billion stars.
TRUE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: 1. Remember
Chapter: 01 The Water Planet
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: Explain the "Big Bang" theory of the origin of the universe, and describe its structure.
Section: 01.01 Cosmic Beginnings
Topic: Cosmic Beginnings
20. Earth rotates on its axis from west to east.
TRUE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: 1. Remember
Chapter: 01 The Water Planet
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: Calculate the difference in time between two locations of known longitude.
Section: 01.04 Where on Earth Are You?
Topic: Where on Earth Are You?
21. On average water in a river will have a longer residence time than water in the oceans.
FALSE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: 1. Remember
Chapter: 01 The Water Planet
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: Describe the Hydrologic Cycle.
Section: 01.06 Earth Is a Water Planet
Topic: Earth Is a Water Planet
22. The magnetic field surrounding Jupiter's moons may be the result of salt water bodies.
TRUE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: 1. Remember
Chapter: 01 The Water Planet
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: Describe the origin of the solar system.
Section: 01.01 Cosmic Beginnings
Topic: Cosmic Beginnings
23. If a sea exists on Jupiter's moon, Europa, it is probably much smaller and shallower than the Earth's
ocean.
FALSE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: 1. Remember
Chapter: 01 The Water Planet
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: Describe the origin of the solar system.
Section: 01.01 Cosmic Beginnings
Topic: Cosmic Beginnings
24. There is no evidence of a past or present ocean on any planet but Earth.
FALSE
