Key milestones in ocean exploration history and core ocean conservation concepts such as overfishing and coral bleaching, one fact per card.
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- What term describes the depletion of fish populations due to catching fish faster than they can reproduce?
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Overfishing- What term describes unwanted marine life accidentally caught while fishing for a different target species?
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Bycatch- What environmental issue describes plastic waste accumulating in the ocean, harming marine life through ingestion and entanglement?
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Ocean plastic pollution- What large area in the Pacific Ocean is known for its high concentration of floating plastic debris?
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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch- What term describes coral turning white and losing its symbiotic algae, usually due to warming ocean temperatures?
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Coral bleaching- What term describes the ocean becoming more acidic as it absorbs excess atmospheric carbon dioxide, harming shellfish and coral?
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Ocean acidification- What conservation designation protects a section of ocean from fishing, drilling, or other extraction to allow ecosystems to recover?
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A marine protected area (MPA)- Who is credited as a pioneering oceanographer and filmmaker who popularized ocean exploration and conservation in the 20th century?
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Jacques Cousteau- What invention, co-developed by Jacques Cousteau, allowed divers to breathe underwater for extended periods, revolutionizing ocean exploration?
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The Aqua-Lung (early scuba equipment)- What historic 1960 expedition became the first crewed vessel to reach the deepest known point in the ocean, the Challenger Deep?
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The Trieste bathyscaphe expedition- What describes a submersible, a small vehicle designed to carry researchers to explore deep underwater environments?
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A submersible- What famous ocean liner, sunk in 1912, was discovered on the ocean floor in 1985 by a team led by Robert Ballard?
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The Titanic- What describes whaling, the historic practice of hunting whales for oil, meat, and other products, now heavily restricted?
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Commercial whaling- What international body was established in 1946 to regulate whaling and conserve whale populations?
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The International Whaling Commission- What term describes species that have disappeared entirely from a specific region but still exist elsewhere?
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Locally extinct (extirpated) species
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