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The document contains 27 multiple choice questions about the content of a video on draining the ocean and exploring the sea floor. It asks about topics like why the sea floor is considered the final frontier, features discovered on the sea floor like deep sea corals, and geological processes observed underwater like what is happening at areas of tectonic plate divergence and subduction.

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Drain The Ocean Video Worksheet 1

The document contains 27 multiple choice questions about the content of a video on draining the ocean and exploring the sea floor. It asks about topics like why the sea floor is considered the final frontier, features discovered on the sea floor like deep sea corals, and geological processes observed underwater like what is happening at areas of tectonic plate divergence and subduction.

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Drain The Ocean


video guide
1) Why is the sea floor considered The Final Frontier?

2) What dramatic feature was discovered at the bottom of Monterrey Bay?

3) In the process of bathymetric mapping, what is meant by mowing the lawn?

4) What type of samples do the ROVs take once they reach the seafloor?

5) What major disturbances may have carved out Monterrey Canyon?

6) Name two uses for bioluminescence:

7) What was the Electric Jellyfish, and how did scientists use it?

8) What is the significance of the Loihi Seamount?

9) What is different about deep water corals?

10) How were the deep water corals discovered?

11) What is the largest, most obvious feature on the sea floor?

12) Why is Iceland so tectonically active?

13) What is happening at the rift valley?

14) How can a transform fault be directly observed on land?

15) What is happening at the Romanche Fracture Zone?

16) Why is the East Pacific Rise so much flatter than the Mid-Atlantic Ridge?

17) What did Alvin discover in 1977?

18) What organisms make up the bottom of the food chain at a hydrothermal vent?

19) How do these organisms get their food, if there is no sunlight (and therefore no photosynthesis)?

20) What other organisms in this environment have a symbiotic relationship with chemosynthetic
bacteria?
21) What area of the sea floor is relatively smooth, wide, and flat due to layers of sediment?

22) What is the Great Bahama Bank made of?

23) About how many seamounts are there in the Pacific Ocean?

24) What was created on the sea floor by the Nuuanu landslide?

25) What other large scale natural disaster could have been triggered by this landslide?

26) What is happening at the Marianas Trench, and what types of crust are involved?

27) What is significant about the Challenger Deep?

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