Extensions and connections for all students have students make an ocean floor model in a waterproof container such as a large clear plastic box and then cover the model with opaque liquid such as very dark colored water.
Characteristics of the ocean floor interactive lab activity.
My students always worked very hard at this lab and were surprisingly well behaved.
Characteristics of the ocean floor.
Marine geology and geophysics theme.
Ocean basin topography ocean environments deep sea floor abyssal topics solid earth.
This activity involves role playing and props to engage students in understanding the concept of invasive species and how they travel.
The assessment is a series of questions about the lab lesson including construction of a data table and higher level questions about lab content.
The following features are shown at example depths to scale though each feature has a considerable range at which it may occur.
Ocean structure virtual lab what are some characteristics of the ocean and the ocean floor.
Student guide lab procedure teacher guide.
Ocean floor characteristics worksheet click here.
This graphic shows several ocean floor features on a scale from 0 35 000 feet below sea level.
Images connect the virtual lab with what happens in the real world.
Have students determine the profile of the unseen ocean floor by taking.
Describe the major features of the ocean floor and explain how the ocean floor is mapped.
Conceptests grade level college lower 13 14.
Hydrothermal vents are like geysers or hot springs on the ocean floor.
Ocean floor mapping activity 25 purpose create a profile map of a contrived artificially designed ocean floor and relate the process to ocean floor mapping.
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Introductory level ready for use ready to use earth system topics solid earth.
Beyond ocean shorelines the continents extend outward.
Ocean biology human impact.
Background through the use of various technologies scientists have been able to create profiles of the oceans floors.
Earths highest mountains deepest valleys and flattest plains are found not on land but under the ocean.
Seawater circulates deep in the ocean s crust and becomes super heated by hot magma.
Maybe use this with the online review.
They slope first gradually and then steeply down to the ocean floor.
About 40 percent of the microbes living in the ocean are archaea.
Some are large enough to see with the naked eye like one species that grows in white filamentous mats on mangrove roots in the west indies though most are microscopic.
These instructional materials are included.
However it is now known that they live everywhere in places as dissimilar as the ocean floor to the cow gut.