Exploring the oceans

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Exploring the oceans

• The ocean floor
• By
• Tyler

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How do scientist study the ocean floor?

• the ocean floor can be as far to 11,000 meters
  down
• they cant survive under the ocean without
  special equipment

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Studying the ocean floor with sonar

• sonar stands for sound navigation and ranging
• The sonar instruments send pulses of sound down
  into the ocean

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Studying the ocean floor with ships

• People cant survive under high pressure
• so they had to make underwater vessels
• that can survive under high pressures

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Studying the ocean floor by drilling

• Scientist use special equipment to cut cores or
  long tubes of rock and sediment

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Studying the ocean floor using satellites

• geosat was once a top secret military satellite
• Today scientist use geosat to study the ocean
  floor indirectliy

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Ocean trenches

• Trenches form where tectonic plates move together

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sources

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