Ocean Floor Features
Flat, featureless area of the ocean floor
abyssal plain
The Mariana Trench is ______________ miles deep
7
What percent of the world is covered by water?
What is 70%
The pressure ____________ as you travel deeper down in the ocean.
increases
This is the shallow part of the ocean floor that begins at the shoreline and is the extension of the continent under water.
Continental shelf.
Flat topped seamount.
Guyot
This is home to most living things in the ocean, This is the area of the Ocean most swimming and fishing take place (begins with a "N")
Neritic
Why would water at the surface of the ocean be warmer than water at the bottom of the ocean?
receives more sunlight.
An area where diveregent plates meet and form an underwater mountain chain.
Mid Ocean Ridge
The deepest part of the ocean is
Mariana Trench
This happens to the temperature as you travel deeper into the ocean.
What is it gets colder.
This was a weighted rope that was used to measure the ocean floor.
sounding line
These features of the ocean floor are very deep valleys cause by convergent plates.
trenches.
The deepest ocean trench in the world is located in this ocean, near what continent or country.
What is the Pacific Ocean.
The zone where most bioluminescent organisms live. (you must provide both names)
What is the twilight/disphotic zone
The three parts in order that make up the continental margin.
shelf, slope, rise
Name one person who has traveled to the Challenger Deep.
Jaques Piccard, James Cameron, Don Wolf,
This is the type of technology that helps scientists explore the ocean floor.
What is Sonar.