Sea Floor Study
Sea Floor Features
Sea Floor Features 2
Sea Floor Formation
Miscellaneous
100
The measuring of the ocean depth and topography of the ocean floor.
What is bathymetry?
100
"E"
What is submarine canyon?
100
The zone between plates, which can be 15-30 miles wide.
What is a rift valley?
100
The area where one plate sinks beneath another.
What is the subduction zone?
100
The approximate depth of the deepest trench in the ocean.
What is 35,000 ft?
200
Measures object hardness on the ocean floor.
What is Side-scan Towfish?
200
"A"
What is a guyot?
200
The deepest part of the deepest trench in the world.
What is the Challenger Deep?
200
The name of the area where two plates push past each other.
What is a transform fault?
200
The region of an organism that focuses sound in echolocation is the melon. These 2 regions receive the incoming sound.
What is the lower jaw and auditory bullae?
300
The two satellite systems for ocean measurements.
What are Geosat and Seasat?
300
"G"
What is abyssal hills?
300
The underwater mountains of volcanic material.
What are seamounts?
300
The name of the area bordering the Pacific Plate that has a very high number of volcanoes.
What is the Ring of Fire?
300
The most common biogenous sediments which are produced from microscopic organisms that inhabit warm surface waters.
What are calcareous oozes?
400
Geosat measures this.
What is the height of the ocean surface?
400
It's made up of the continental shelf, continental slope, and the continental rise.
What is the continental margin?
400
The ocean with the vast majority of seamounts.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
400
Hydrothermal vents occur due to this.
Water being trapped in subduction boundaries.
400
The animal with the loudest echolocation on record and the intensity.
What is the sperm whale and 260 dB.
500
The speed of sound through water.
What is 1,500 meters per second?
500
Consists of everything other than the continental shelf, slope and rise on the ocean floor.
What is the deep ocean basin?
500
The first and only submarine to reach the deepest part of the ocean.
What is the Trieste?
500
The type of sediment dominating the continental plate.
What is terrigenous sediment?
500
This type of biogenous material is derived from the bones, teeth, and scales of fish and other marine organisms.
What are phosphate rich materials.