Searching The World
Scavenger Hunt!

Use your wits and intuition to find the following items. Some are easy and some are hard (otherwise, this wouldn't be a scavenger hunt!). You may follow the suggested link (if any) or try any of the search engines.

1. Are there really killer dolphins?
   Visit the Dolphin Project Europe Newsletter at http://www.achilles.net/~jamesh/dolphin/ and find out.

2. What do Killer Whales sound like?
   Find their songs and movies on the Orcas and Marine Mammals page at http://www.ccsr.uiuc.edu/%7Egmk/Projects/Orcas-SW/.

3. Find a picture of the Deep Sea Research Vessel Alvin.
   Search the Jason Project web site at http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/scripts/JASON.html for information about how Dr. Robert Ballard's team of researchers found the final resting place of the RMS Titanic.

4. Find the splashdown video on the Ocean Planet home page.
   First enter the Exhibition located at http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/ocean_planet.html and go to the Ocean Science section. Click on the undersea flyby and find the movie!

5. What is a hydrothermal vent?
   Like the item above, you'll find the answer somewhere in Smithsonian's Ocean Planet home page (http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/ocean_planet.html).

6. What fish is found in both the Florida Everglades and Wisconsin Lakes?
   Check out a Sea Grant site (http://www.mdsg.umd.edu/NSGO/NationalSeaGrant.html) or go back to the Jason Project. Better yet, try your luck with one of the search engines.

7. Find the limerick about a young lady who played a harp and caught several carp. (bonus: who wrote it?)
   You might try your favorite search engine for this bit of nonsense.

8. Finally, what topics are you interested in? This will be the focus of the web page you'll create later today.

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   Searching The World!
   Prepared by Dan Jacobs
   Maryland Sea Grant
   

   
   Internet and Web Page Construction - April 11, 1997