Some merit scholarships also consider financial need, but rewarding talent is the primary objective. In most cases the scholarship sponsor has a set of criteria they use to select the winners from among the qualified applicants. Sponsors can have a variety of goals in offering a scholarship.
A batholith (from Greek bathos, depth + lithos, rock) is a large emplacement of igneous intrusive (also called plutonic) rock that forms from cooled magma deep in the Earth's crust. batholith is an exposed area of (mostly) continuous plutonic rock that covers an area larger than 100 square kilometers (40 square miles). Areas smaller than 100 square kilometers are called stocks.
A bathymetric chart or bathymetry map is used to illustrate the depth of the sea floor and its features in a two-dimensional drawing. (The root bathy- means depth). A bathymetry map is an example of a contour plot in which lines representing a constant depth, contour lines, are plotted. The contour lines on a bathymetric chart are called isobaths. Once you learn how to read and interpret the isobaths on a bathymetry map, you will be able to locate underwater features like ridges, canyons, seamounts, and other features on the sea floor. Isobaths are plotted from depth measurements (soundings) recorded on a nautical chart.