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Ocean Floor Features
Ocean Floor Exploration
Ocean
Ocean Zone Fun
Trench
100

Flat featureless area of ocean floor

Abyssal Plain

100

A weighted rope used to measure distance

Sounding Line

100
What percent of the world is covered by water?
What is 70%
100

Name the area in which you would go swimming and fishing. (begins with a N)

Neritic

100

Name of the deepest trench?

Mariana Trench

200

The extension of the continent underwater

What is the continental shelf.

200

The name of the submarine used to explore the Mariana Trench.

Alvin

200

List the five oceans from smallest to largest

Arctic, Southern, Indian, Atlantic, Pacific

200

Why would water at the surface of the ocean be warmer than water at the bottom of the ocean?

What is it receives more sunlight.

200

What ocean is the Mariana trench located in?

Pacific

300

The underwater mountain chain where tectonic plates diverge

mid ocean ridge

300

Sends a signal down that bounces off the ocean floor and gives an accurate depiction of the ocean floor. 

sonar

300
This happens to the temperature as you travel deeper into the ocean.
What is it gets colder.
300

This zone has the most bioluminscent organisms. (must name both names)

twllight/disphotic

300

What country is the Mariana Trench near?

China, Japan

400

Flat topped seamounts

Guyots.

400

Name of the submersible suit first used

the Jim Suit

400
An organism in this zone would likely have, small eyes, large mouth and an organ that produces some light.
What is the midnight zone (Bathypelagic)
400

Name the three parts of the continental margin in order.

Shelf, slope, rise

400

How deep is the Mariana Trench?

36,000 feet 7 miles

500

Area where tectonic plates converge and form a valley

Trench

500

What is the name of the deepest part of the Mariana Trench?

The Challenger Deep

500

Name the warmest ocean and why it is the warmest.

Indian because it is near the equator.

500

Name the zones from land to ocean in order. (tide zones)

supratidal, intertidal, subtidal.

500

Name one person who has explored the Mariana Trench.

Jacque Piccard, Don Wolf, James Cameron