A. Flat Abyssal plain- an underwater plain on the deep ocean floor, usually found at depths between 3000 and        6000 m. Lying generally between the foot of a continental rise and a mid ocean ridge. 

B. Seamount or guyot- an isolated underwater volcanic mountain.

C. Continental shelf, break, slope, rise- an underwater extension of the coastal plain. 

D. Submarine canyon- a steep-sided valley cut into the sea floor of the continental slope.

E. Mid ocean ridge- a general term for an underwater mountain system that consists of various mountain ranges.

F.Trench and island arc system- An island arc is a type of archipelago, often composed of a chain of volcanoes.

1. Our surveyed are and our topography was generally flat, other than a few rifts.

2. The advantage of remote sensing technology is that it gathers information more accurately than what we just       see.

3. Stretching the Y-axis on a graph has some advantages. One of the advantages is that it allows more objects       to fit onto the graph.

friday Oct 18 post

  Plate Tectonics is when the earths crust i broken into six large peices an more smaller ones. Scientists with diffrent discplines share information by Peer review of publications. Many will make journals to follow there research and results for further publication. They will write scientific articles and later send these to scientific journals for peer editing before they are publically displayed as a new "theory" or idea. They get a report back within a week regarding whether it is a acceptable journal display and they will report back there thoughts on it.  I learned that the Mountian range will begin to line up and all alike fossil remains will be brought together. Continental drift i when continents drift over ocean floors. Seafloor Spreading is when lava come between creases and pushes the continents apart. North and South Ameria move west and Eurasia Africa to the east. The Atlantic also will get larger and wider. 
     

we would set out from the closest port into the South Pacific on a sunday morning. It is a long trip. Our supplies would include large amountsof food,water, and safety equipment. We would also bring some of the most advanced diving equipment availible. Our goal is to get to the breeding ground by Friday. We could set up once we get there. Hopefully we would have a good amount of time for preperation. At night we would send our divers to the shallower breeding ground and oursubmarine to the deeper ones. One of our most important and effective pieces of equipment would be our cameras which have night vision and flashlights. We would continue studying them through saturday night and hopefully collect good data.