BPop Ocean Floor

Plates move north at divergent boundaries, and south at convergent boundaries.

Plates move downward at divergent boundaries, and upward at a convergent boundaries.

Plates move apart at divergent boundaries, and come together at a convergent boundaries.

Plates form trenches at divergent boundaries, and mountains at convergent boundaries.

The ocean floor is covered in seaweed and other forms of plant life.

Water distorts our view of the ocean floor.

Sunlight cannot reach that far down.

The ocean floor is buried under ash from volcanic eruptions.

A valley

A mountain

A beach

A cliff

A few dozen kilometers off the coast of Californina

Ten kilometers off the coast of Florida

In the exact center of the Pacific Ocean

Where the Gulf of Mexico meets the shore

a mountain

a prairie

a valley

a canyon

The mantle

The core

The crust

The mesosphere

Wesley

Bob

Tim

Mr. O

Seaweed

The bodies of dead ocean creatures

Rocks, dirt, sand, and pieces of organic material

A type of coral

In a mid-ocean ridge

In an abyssal plain

In a trench

On a continental shelf

volcanic island emerges

a seamount is formed

a volcano begins erupting