History
In 1875 the Mariana Trench was discovered on this oceanic vessel.
What is the HMS Challenger?
Known for its bioluminescent lure, this toothy fish resides within the Mariana Trench.
What is an angler fish?
Formed from the collision of two oceanic plates, the Mariana Trench is an example of what type of plate boundary?
What is a convergent plate boundary?
The Mariana Trench is about a mile deeper than this mountain is high.
What is Mount Everest?
What does a dolphin say when it is confused?
Can you please be more Pacific?
In the 1900s, what metal was used to sink subs deep into the trench?
What are Lead rods?
This floating plant is incapable of surviving in the Mariana Trench due to the lack of natural light.
What is phytoplankton?
The East most plate of the Mariana Trench is vastly denser than its Western counterpart. This difference in density combined with the tectonic collision results in what geological phenomenon?
What is tectonic subduction?
In 2009 which president labeled the Mariana Trench as an American national monument?
Who is George W. Bush?
Why did the fisherman start doing drugs?
He fell for the pier pressure.
What was the first and only manned vessel to reach the bottom of the trench?
What is the Trieste?
Far in the depths of the Mariana Trench this bioluminescent cephalopod shares close ties with Dracula.
Its presence at the bottom of the Ocean denotes that the Mariana Trench is composed of what kind of extrusive igneous rock.
What is basalt?
The deepest section of the trench is known by this name.
Where does seaweed look for a job?
In the kelp-wanted section.
The Mariana Trench is approximately this old.
What is 180,000,000 years?
Deep within the Mariana Trench resides this cephalopod named for its elephant-like ears.
What is a dumbo octopus?
These are the names of the two tectonic plates that compose the Mariana Trench.
What are the Pacific plate and the Mariana/Philippine plate?
This well known Hollywood director became the first person since the 1960s to travel to the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
Who is James Cameron?
Why do pirates take so long to learn the alphabet?
Because they spend years at C.
Only a single manned vessel has been to the bottom of the trench. What equipment currently helps us explore the trench without them?
What are Landers or Rovers?
With a lineage of 125 million years, this pink skinned fish has a very distinct nose and mouth.
What is a goblin shark?
The subduction of the Pacific plate causes the destruction of the upper mantle leading to the formation of these islands.
What are the Mariana Islands?
In 1960 these two men earned the title of first people to reach the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
Who are Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh?
Where does a killer whale go for braces?
The orca-dontist.