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What are things used to examine the ocean floor?
Sonar and Satellite Imaging.
The top layer of the ocean floor is primarily?
Oceanic zone is mostly a region consisting of open ocean water with a wide range of undersea terrain.
How do satellites determine the terrain of the ocean floor?
Satellites use radar altimeters that are specially made tomeasurethe height of the ocean surface. The satellitesmeasurethe height of the ocean surface with an accuracy of 3cm realitve to the center of the earth.
How did scientists determine how the ocean floor is?
Radiometric Dating.. APEX!
What is the depth of ocean all over the earth?
The ocean floor is very much like dry terrain; it has mountains and valleys, so the depth is not constant all over earth.
How are satellites able to map the ocean floor?
Due to gravity, ocean water is attracted to areas of high topography and away from areas of low topography on the sea floor, causing bulges and depressions on the ocean surface. Satellite radar can detect these changes in elevation.
The bottom of the ocean is called?
The bottom of an ocean is typically called the seafloor. Although the seafloor can have variant geographical features such as mountains or volcanos, a normal, and flat terrain is called the seafloor.
What is the depth of all of the what?
The ocean floor is very much like dry terrain; it has mountains and valleys, so the depth is not constant all over earth.
Where you can view live satellite of the ocean?
From inside a satellite
What is one technology oceanographers use today to explore nthe ocean floor?
Robotics is one such technology used today.
What is the topography of the ocean floor?
The topography of the ocean floor
Which landforms are on the ocean floor?
which landforms are on the ocean floor
