Hydrothermal Vents
Underwater Geographical Features
Marine Geologists
Fun Facts
Deep Sea Trawls
100
What are hydrothermal vents?
What are hot pouring, mineral-rich fluids from beneath the ocean floor
100
Name an underwater geographical feature
What are seamounts, mid-ocean ridges, trenches, and hydrothermal vents
100
What does a Marine Geologist do?
What is studies underwater geographical features
100
What abbreviation does E.P.A.
What is the Environmental Protection Agency
100
What are deep sea trawls?
What are weights that are attached to deep sea trawl nets
200
Where are hydrothermal vents found
Where are near volcanically active areas and near the mid-ocean ridge
200
What are seamounts?
What are underwater mountains that rise high off the sea floor
200
How much does an average Marine Geologist's salary?
What is about $93,000
200
How many types of corals are there?
What are two different types of corals
200
What are deep sea trawl nets?
What are the nets dragged through the water at great depths.
300
Why are hydrothermal vents important?
What is they are important because they act as underwater plumbing system
300
What is the largest mountain range in the world?
What is The Mid-Ocean Ridge
300
Where can a Marine Geologist find work? (Need to list two)
What is for a private institution, the E.P.A., and for oil and gas companies as scouts
300
How long is the Mid-Ocean Ridge
What is 60,000 km
300
What are the boats called that drag the trawl nets?
What are trawlers or draggers
400
What did the expedition in 1997 tell scientists about hydrothermal vents
What are astonishing ecosystems nourished by the vents revolutionize scientific thinking about where and how life could exist
400
Where are mid-ocean ridges found?
What around the world on the sea floor
400
Name two topics that some Marine Geologist are currently studying?
What are Seamounts, Trenches, Natural Oil Seeps, Mid-Ocean Ridges, and Hydrothermal Vents (Any of these answers would work)
400
How much life can trawlers destroy?
What is about 3 football fields a day
400
Why are deep sea trawls a threat to deep sea corals?
What is a threat to deep sea corals because the trawlers destroy deep sea corals
500
Where were hydrothermal vents first discovered?
What is The Galapagos Rift
500
How tall is the tallest seamount in the ocean?
What is 33,476 ft.
500
Why are Marine Geologists important to the Ocean?
What is they are important because they help protect Marine animals and the geographical features under water
500
What are natural oil seeps?
What are spots where oil flows through to reach the coastal environment
500
What animals do deep sea trawls PROTECT?
What are small fish that can fit through the netting
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