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Essay Instructions: Oceanic Cable provides pay-per view coverage of all the University of Hawaii football games. The cost to purchase a single game is $55 if you live on Oahu, but is only $27.50 if you live on one of the other Hawaiian Islands. You can also choose to purchase the entire season of games for $500 if you live on Oahu and $250 if you live on a neighbor Island. How/why is Oceanic Cable able to use such pricing policy?
Given the pricing policy Oceanic has chosen, What goal(s) might they have?
Do you think the pricing policy is an effective way to achieve that goal?
If not, what other pricing policies might Oceanic use?

In your papers you must back your statements, conclusions, and conjectures with analysis utilizing tools from Managerial Economics. This basically means you must explain and justify all of your statements using the managerial economic concepts from Chapter 1-3 : Introduction to managerial economics, basic tools for managerial economics, Demand Theory

Essay Instructions: Answers to each question should be at least one typed page.
Double-space your work, and properly cite all your sources in APA format. Include a reference for your text,
other books, and for any web sites you use.

Essay Questions:

1. What were the significant contributions of James Cook, Matthew Maury, and the
Challenger Expedition? How did their contributions lead to a better
understanding of oceanography?

2. Compare three types of convergent plate boundaries (oceanic-oceanic,
oceanic-continental, and continental-continental) and describe what happens at
each. Provide specific geographic examples.

3. What are the distributions of siliceous ooze and calcareous ooze and what are
the causes of these distributions?

4. What are the major features in an ocean basin with a passive continental
margin? Describe the processes which formed them. Compare these features to
ocean basins with active margins.

5. Describe several properties of water. How are the properties significant for
oceanography?

Essay Instructions: Assignments:

Locate your current location or your home town and find the approximate latitude and longitude.

Report this location in words (such as Atlanta, Georgia or a ship in the North Sea) along with the latitude and longitude.

Look for the point where you would be most surrounded by water.

Give the approximate latitude and longitude and a verbal description of the place. If you are using a map rather than a globe, try to compensate for the distortion of areas at high latitudes when you pick your point. Tell whether you used a globe or map, and if a map, what its projection was (such as Mercator, Miller, etc.).

Look for the point where you would be most surrounded by land. Give the same type of information.

Compare the land versus ocean area in the northern and southern hemispheres and discuss what you observe.
Imagine you are going to fly over the continents by the most direct route. What are the most distant points between which you could fly? Discuss the path you would take.
Imagine you are on a ship traveling the ocean by the most direct route.

What are the most distant points between which you could sail?

Discuss the path you would take and/or other things you learn from working on this.

How far apart are these points in flying distance?

Compare three types of convergent plate boundaries (oceanic-oceanic, oceanic-continental, and continental-continental) and describe what happens at each with specific geographic examples.

How are ocean depths related to plate tectonic processes? Be sure to include divergent boundaries, convergent boundaries and abyssal plains in your answer.

Describe the major ocean surface current patterns and discuss what produces these patterns. (1 page)

Compare and contrast the following types of waves: swells, breaking surf, and tsunami. Be sure to include water depth, wavelength, wave speed, and causes. (1 page)

Discuss how the tides in a bay depend on its location in the ocean. (1 page)

Compare and contrast depositional and erosional coasts in terms of surface features, plate tectonic settings, and active processes. Include specific examples. (1 page)

Discuss the differences in capabilities necessary for survival of marine organisms (larger than plankton) in the pelagic zone versus the benthic zone. (1 page)

Essay Instructions: 1. Discuss the topographic features of the ocean floor.
2. Discuss biogenous, hydrogenous, and terrigenous seafloor dediments. List examples of each type.
3. Discuss the major oceanic current systems. Which factors seem to be involved in producing them?
4. Discuss the El Nino syndrome.