BRAZILIAN SCIENCE TEAM
THE GEOGRAPHY OF THE OCEAN FLOOR
Your team is led by Dr. Acoustica of the Institute for Undersea Mapping.
Your group has spent the last decade towing sonar arrays across the oceans to examine the shape of the ocean floor. A diagram representing you findings is on the reverse of this page.
Fill in the blanks on the diagram, and prepare transparencies or a PowerPoint file for your presentation.
1. What are "mid-ocean ridges?"
2. What are "trenches?"
Go to the websites listed below and read what is there:
Developing the Theory (read the section titled “Ocean floor mapping”)