Definitions
Oceanogrophy
What is the study of the ocean
How many thirds of the ocean is water?
What is ⅔
Hov stands for
what is Human Occupied Vessle
Sensors
What are devices that are used to measure and record information about the environment, such as temperature or depth.
How deep is the deep sea?
What is 600–33,000 feet deep
Hydrothermal Vents
What are places where water comes up through cracks in the seafloor after it has been heated and enriched in metals and other chemicals by magma under the seabed.
The six challenges for exploring the deep sea
What is...
dark
deep
extreme tempatures
salinity
big
$$$
Rov stands for
What is Remotely operated vehicles
Multi-Beam echo sounder
What is an instrument that uses multiple beams of sound to determine the water depth below the surface using sound waves.
Auv stands for
What is Autonomous underwater vehicles
Bathymetric
What is the measurement of the seafloor’s depth.
The ocean is important...
What is it helps us predict the weather, prevent tsumies, it gives us food, oxygen
NOAA stands for
What is National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration