When was the first submarine built?
•1620. Cornelis Jacobszoon Drebbel, a Ditch engineer, was the first to build it.
What is the largest island?
•Greenland is the world's largest island. While Australia is an island, it is considered a continent. Greenland has an area of 2,166,086 square km, but a meager population of 56,452
What country has the longest coastline?
How many different species of ocean fish exist?
•About 150-200 fish.
Who is the father of oceanography?
•Matthew Maury, also considered the "pathfinder of the seas." He was an American oceanographer, meteorologist, cartographer, and geologist.
What is the average ocean temperature?
•17°C or 62.6°F.
Why is the ocean blue?
•It is commonly believed that the ocean is blue because of the sky reflecting off of it. But the ocean is blue because of the way it absorbs sunlight. It strongly absorbs colors at the red end of the wavelength spectrum, as well as the violet end, so what remains is mostly blue.
What is the difference between a hurricane and a typhoon?
•In the North Atlantic, central North Pacific, and eastern North Pacific, the term hurricane is used. The same type of disturbance in the Northwest Pacific is called a typhoon.
What causes sea foam?
•When dissolved organic matter is the water is churned up, mostly algal bloom (different types of algae)
Where do the highest tides occur?
•Bay of Fundy, Canada.
What is the warmest ocean?
•The Indian Ocean.
What do you call a person who studies fish?
•Ichthyologist, or simply a biologist, for a broader term.
What is the largest fish?
•The whale shark. It is also the largest living animal that is not a cetacean.
What is the fastest fish?
•The sailfish is the fastest fish in the world – able to swim at a speed of 68mph, followed by the marlin at 50mph.
•Of course, there is a lot of controversy on this topic, so I suggest doing more research on it.
What is the slowest fish?
•The dwarf seahorse swims at about 0.01 mph, making it the slowest fish in the world.
What is the smallest crab?
•The pea crab. Female pea crabs measure half an inch across at their largest, and male pea crabs are significantly smaller at less than a third of an inch wide.
What is the largest seaweed?
•The giant kelp.
Hope I helped!
Islam gained momentum during the 10th century in West Africa with the start of the Almoravid dynasty movement on the Senegal River and as rulers and kings embraced Islam. Islam then spread slowly in much of the continent through trade and preaching. During this period these Muslims from North and West Africa came to be known by Europeans at large as Moors and were depicted by Europeans as black, swarthy or tawny in skin color.
According to Arab oral tradition, Islam first came to Africa with Muslim refugees fleeing persecution in the Arab peninsula. This was followed by a military invasion, some seven years after the death of the prophet Mohammed in 639, under the command of the Muslim Arab General, Amr ibn al-Asi.
You would take a ruler and measure the amount of centimeter or inches between the two places. Then measure the scale. If the scale was 50 miles and 1 inch and the two points were 2 inches apart. The places would be 100 miles apart because 50*2=100
