What does oceanographer mean?
Word: Oceanographer
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Oceanographer means a scientist who studies the oceans: their water, currents, sea floor and the life in them.
How do you spell oceanographer?
Syllables: o - cean - og - ra - pher
Tricky part: The f sound near the end is the trap. It is written ph, and many students write f instead.
Watch out for: oceanografer, oceanograffer
Memory tip: A graph hides near the end of the word, and graph spells its f sound with ph.
Oceanographer in a sentence
Example 1: An oceanographer from Cape Town told our class how ocean currents move warm water.
Example 2: My cousin wants to be an oceanographer and study coral reefs.
Example 3: The oceanographer lowered a small robot from the ship to film the sea floor.
Fun Fact
Oceanographers have found that the deepest known point of the ocean, in the Mariana Trench in the Pacific, lies nearly 11 kilometres down.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Cookie
Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:
oce_nogr_pher
a) o, a
b) e, a
c) a, e
d) a, a
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d) a, a. Start from ocean, which ends in an, and the middle has the a of graph.
Word Cookie
Find the extra letter in the word:
occeanographer
a) n
b) o
c) c
d) e
Show answer
c) c. Ocean has a single c, and so does this word.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
rhaocpegoarne
a) photographer
b) oceanographer
c) geographer
d) choreographer
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b) oceanographer. Only oceanographer has an n; geographer, photographer and choreographer all lack it.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the correctly spelt word:
a) astronawt
b) geolagist
c) biologest
d) oceanographer
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d) oceanographer. Biologist ends in ist, geologist has an o before the g, and astronaut is spelt with au.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Where would an oceanographer most often carry out field work?
a) on a mountain peak
b) in a desert camp
c) in a city library
d) on a research ship
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d) on a research ship
2. Which question is part of an oceanographer's work?
a) Why are some coral reefs losing colour?
b) Which planet has the most moons?
c) How old is this hill fort?
d) How do bees make their honey?
Show answer
a) Why are some coral reefs losing colour?
