Ocean Floor Features

Want to climb the highest mountain on earth? First you will need to climb in to a deep ocean submersible and travel 4 miles to the bottom of the Pacific ocean before you begin your ascent. What is happening down there in the deep on the ocean floor?

Grade 11 and 12 have or will be studying ocean floor features and so this article is excellent extra reading with sections on seamount biodiversity, plate tectonics and underwater features and some excellent underwater relief maps highlighting the presence of trenches and ridges.

http://www.noaa.gov/resource-collections/ocean-floor-features