Plotting the Ocean Floor

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Plotting the Ocean Floor

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Learning about the topography of the ocean floor is easily accomplished when students plot points on a graph, connect the dots to make the ocean floor profile and label the topographical features.

Education Levels:

9, 10, 11, 12

Subject:

Earth Science

Resource Type:

Activity

Medium:

Text/HTML

Fee Status:

Free

Online provider:

Beacon Learning Center

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Keywords:

Graphing, Graphs, Charts, Topography, Ocean floor, Plate tectonics

Mediator:

Secondary school teachers

Publisher:

Beacon Learning Center

Contributor:

Nancy Dow

Is Part Of:

http://www.beaconlearningcenter.com/lessons/Level4SC.asp

Language:

English

Subjects/Topics

P21 Subject:

Science

Learning Outcomes:

Conforms To

Sunshine State Standards Grade Level Expectations: Science (1996)

Strand D: Processes that Shape the Earth

Standard 1: The student recognizes that processes in the lithosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere interact to shape the Earth. (SC.D.1.4)

2. knows that the solid crust of Earth consists of slow-moving, separate plates that float on a denser, molten layer of Earth and that these plates interact with each other, changing the Earth's surface in many ways (e.g., forming mountain ranges and rift valleys, causing earthquake and volcanic activity, and forming undersea mountains that can become ocean islands)

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