Activity On Parts Of The Ocean Floor

Winds water density and tides all drive ocean currents.

Activity on parts of the ocean floor.

Features of the ocean floor. Today much of our exploration of the oceans happens using sonar and remotely operated vehicles. Mid ocean ridge activity this activity consists of naming the continents identifying mid ocean ridges and determining the age of the ocean floor. Similar to a person trying to walk in a straight line across a spinning merry go round winds and ocean waters get deflected from a straight line path as they travel.

Below the ocean floor there are a few small deeper areas called ocean trenches. Join jessi and squeaks and learn all about the super cool super. The ocean is also part of the earth s surface and just as there are volcanoes mountains plains and other visible formations on land the same exist underwater although not everything in the ocean is completely mapped. Scientific research submersibles have explored the ocean s deepest trenches but most are designed to reach only the ocean floor.

Ocean floor reading passage interactive activity and writing prompt. The layers range from the surface layer where most ocean activities occur to the deep dark depths of the water that have yet to be fully explored. But underneath that surface there s a lot of stuff hidden at the bottom. Coastal and sea floor features influence their location direction and speed.

It s flat blue and honestly it s kind of boring. There are four basic types of sediment of the sea floor. As plates converge one plate may move under the other causing earthquakes forming volcanoes or creating deep ocean trenches. The terrain or land relief is the accumulation of forms that exist on the surface of the earth.

Deep in the pacific ocean near china is the mariana trench the deepest part of the ocean. From land the ocean all looks the same. The deep layers have unique sea creatures freezing temperatures and high pressure. Earth s rotation results in the coriolis effect which also influences ocean currents.

1 terrigenous describes the sediment derived from the materials eroded by rain rivers glaciers and that which is blown into the ocean by the wind such as volcanic ash. With the advancement in technology scientists are hopeful that the oceanic depths will be explored thoroughly. The ocean floor is called the abyssal plain. Once you have labeled each map correctly you should be able to answer the series of questions that follow.

Features of the ocean include the continental shelf slope and rise.