Five main types? That's rather arbitrary, and your teacher may have
different ideas to other people. Hmm, let's see. Mine would be:
1) Biological oceanography: critters, especially small ones; some would
take it to include marine ecology, but to me that's a separate
discipline.
2) Physical oceanography: water mass characteristics and properties
(temperature, salinity etc).
3) Marine geology: seafloor geology, can include plate tectonics,
seafloor spreading etc. Widely used in the petroleum business.
4) Ichthyology: fish.
5) Marine zoology: critters, anything from invertebrates to fish to
whales.
And: 6) Hydrography - bottom topography, charting, depths etc - would
also qualify.
Phil Clapham
Snowystars28@aol.com wrote:
>
> I need information on the five main types of marine science. I need to write
> a paragraph description of each. Please answer before sunday!!!! :)
> sincerely,Leha M.
--Phillip J. Clapham, Ph.D. Large Whale Biology Program Northeast Fisheries Science Center 166 Water Street Woods Hole, MA 02543
tel (508) 495-2316 fax (508) 495-2258 Internet: phillip.clapham@noaa.gov
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