6+ocean+floor+features

Well-organized and complete! This project looks very strong. Good images will be a key to your project; look carefully for the best images. Remember to come at the problem from different angles. Searching for "continental edge" in google is one way, but not the only way. Try using yahoo's directory, try web searching instead of image searching for "ocean floor features" and picking images from what you find, check NOAA's website, and use Yahoo!Kids as well. --Mr. Beyer

A continental shelf extends in a downward slope from the shorelines of the continents into the ocean. A continental edge is the point at witch the shelf surrounding each continent begins to angle toward the ocean depths. A continental slope is the clifflike drop beyond the continental edge. A continental rise stretches from the lower portion of the continental slop to the deepest part of the ocean. The abyssal plain is the bottom of the ocean. The mid-ocean ridge is the longest mountain ridge in the world extending 36 thousand miles and passing through the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific oceans. The seamounts are free standing mountains formed by volcanos. Hydrothermal Vents are small vents on the ocean floor.

OUTLINE ocean floor features Slide 1: Ocean Floor Features Ian Carson & Daniel Bujcs, Ocean floor features, a drawing of the ocean floor

Slide 2: definition of continental shelf A continental shelf extends in a downward slope from the shorelines of the continents into the ocean, picture of continental shelf

Slide 3: definition of continental edge A continental edge is the point at witch the shelf surrounding each continent begins to angle toward the ocean depths, picture of continental edge

Slide 4: definition of continental slope A continental slope is the clifflike drop beyond the continental edge, picture of continental slope

Slide 5: definition of continental rise A continental rise stretches from the lower portion of the continental slop to the deepest part of the ocean, picture of continental rise

Slide 6: definition of abyssal plain The abyssal plain is the bottom of the ocean, picture of abyssal plain

Slide 7: definition of mid-ocean ridge The mid-ocean ridge is the longest mountain ridge in the world extending 36 thousand miles and passing through the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific oceans, picture of mid-ocean ridge

Slide 8: definition of seamounts The seamounts are free standing mountains formed by volcanos, picture of seamounts

Slide 9: definition of Hydrothermal Vents Hydrothermal Vents are small vents on the ocean floor, picture of Hydrothermal Vents

Slide 10: Interactive Game Multiple Choice

Slide 11: Interactive Game Firecracker.

Sources: "Houghton Mifflin Science Discovery Works Oceanography" book & Wikipedia []