Ocean Floor For Kids
Starting from land a trip across an ocean basin along the seafloor would begin with crossing the continental shelf.
Ocean floor for kids. Here are 15 crazy facts about the ocean floor. This video examines the different types of features in the ocean primarily on the ocean floor. In fact it has been said that we know more about the surface of the moon than about the deeper ocean trenches. We know very little about the deep ocean floor and the life it holds due to the depth and the difficulties this creates for scientists.
Bacteria that live there make. Discover how ocean currents and the movement of tectonic plates forms trenches valleys plains and ridges. Underwater mountains and shelves. For more free educational resources visit http lincolnlear.
In this lesson you learned that the ocean floor is the bottom of the ocean and that it has volcanoes trenches and mountains just like the surface of the earth. Just a century ago the ocean floor was largely unknown. Far below the ocean s surface volcanic mountain chains are rising in mid ocean zones where plates pull apart. Plate tectonics and the ocean floor.