Learn About The Ocean Floor

Use these resources to help your students learn about ocean life human interactions with the ocean and the ocean s physical geography and to gain the information necessary to formulate their own opinions on ocean related environmental issues.

Learn about the ocean floor.

You will learn what it looks like and also what lives down there. The ocean floor is a dark mysterious place and you will learn about it in this lesson. Using examples of current explorations of the unknown and real time discoveries offsite link can increase the relevance of studying the ocean floor and help increase students excitement for learning. Learn about the three ocean zones with our ocean experts dr.

Irene stanella and her lab assistants wyatt and ned. Ocean education bring engaging and important ocean learning to your classroom. The ocean floor may be more exciting to explore than any mountain above sea level. The outstanding feature of the atlantic floor is the mid atlantic ridge an immense median mountain range extending throughout the length of the atlantic claiming the centre third of the ocean bed and reaching roughly 1 000 miles 1 600 km in breadth.

Though people have traveled on the ocean for millennia people have explored only a tiny fraction of the ocean floor. Relief of the ocean floor. Want to help supp. The ocean floor is sometimes called the final frontier of the modern era.

Read this lesson to learn about what you ll see on the ocean floor from abysses and slopes to hydrothermal vent.