Ocean Floor Features Activity

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Ocean floor features activity. Identify sonar image cards with vocabulary cards. Students identify ocean floor features. The oceanic crust and seafloor. The oceanic crust and seafloor.

This graphic shows several ocean floor features on a scale from 0 35 000 feet below sea level. Use the ocean floor features teacher version answer key to check student work. Ocean floor charades a. Revisiting the survey in 2005.

Have students do a new revised drawing based on what they have. The following features are shown at example depths to scale though each feature has a considerable range at which it may occur. Identify any additional features discovered in your exploration. Of the following techniques which one s can be used to map the sea floor.

Most large ocean floor features owe their origins to. In this earth science lesson students predict the object inside a close box to make them realize the difficulties scientists faced then. Seafloor features and mapping the seafloor. Using the features of the ocean floor and the other maps have students compare to their drawings.

Use the terms in table 7 6. Deep ocean water is divided into layers or zones each with typical features of salinity pressure temperature and marine life according to their depth. Continental shelf 300 feet continental slope 300 10 000 feet abyssal plain 10 000 feet abyssal hill 3 000 feet up from the abyssal plain seamount 6 000 feet. Extreme pressure at depth biological activity ocean current activity plate tectonic processes erosion and weathering.

They label the different zones of the ocean floor after the. Saved by tricia stohr hunt. Here s a nice reproducible diagram of the ocean floor. Simulating sonar mapping of the ocean floor.

Teaching geography teaching science science fun science ideas earth and space science earth from space seafloor spreading types of ocean continental shelf. Lying along the top of the abyssal plain is the abyssal zone whose lower boundary lies at about 6 000 m 20 000 ft. You have been given the opportunity as a preeminent oceanographer to descend to the ocean floor in a submersible on your 90th birthday. Have a student select a card from their sonar image card set and act out the ocean floor features using their body movement 2.

In this activity students will investigate the locations of earth s continental and ocean floor features to provide evidence for the role of plate tectonics as a constructive force shaping earth s surface this activity aligns to ngss hs ess2 1 develop a model to illustrate how earth s internal an.