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Is the floor near the mid ocean old?
No. The newest ocean floor is at the mid-ocean ridge.
What is the floor of the ocean called?
The floor of the ocean is called the seabed or ocean floor. It is made up of different features such as abyssal plains, trenches, ridges, and volcanoes.
Is the ocean floor a good place for fossils to form?
A lot of shells of marine organisms wind up on the ocean floor. Bones do not last on the ocean floor, they get eaten. But shells can last.
In which layer of the Earth is the ocean floor?
The crust contains the ocean floor and also the continents on Earth.
What are the 3 main regions of the ocean floor?
The three main regions of the ocean floor are the continental margins, the ocean basins, and the mid-ocean ridges. Continental margins are the shallow, submerged edges of continents. Ocean basins are the deeper areas of the ocean floor beyond the continental margins. Mid-ocean ridges are underwater mountain ranges where tectonic plates move apart and magma rises to create new oceanic crust.
Do skeletons exist on the ocean floor?
The ocean floor sediment contains unfathomable numbers of marine organism skeletons.
Organism that live on the ocean floor are called?
Bentic
What organism covered the ocean floor for much of the Paleozoic Era?
Trilobites
Is a hermit crab a benthic organism?
yes, they are benthos because they crawl on the ocean floor.
Can octopus walk on the sand of the ocean floor?
Yes. They grow legs and wander around looking for jellyfish to kick.
When metals concentrate around pieces of shell on the ocean floor they form black lumps called?
they are called organic spots on the ocean floor.
Why is the ocean floor lower as you move away from the mid-ocan ridges?
The mid-ocean ridges which wrap around the ocean floor like the seam of a baseball, are high topographic features-but as you go away from either side of a ridge, the ocean floor subsides as it cools.
Is the ocean matter?
The ocean floor is matter, and so is everything else around it. Everything is made of matter.
Which landforms are on the ocean floor?
which landforms are on the ocean floor
What is the topography of the ocean floor?
The topography of the ocean floor
How does a pill bug or isopod art like a scavenger?
The isopod crawls over the ocean floor eating whatever it comes across (that it can). The pill bug does much the same on land. They don't just act like scavengers, they are scavengers.
Is ocean floor smooth?
The ocean floor is not smooth.The ocean floor is made up of rocks, ledges and ditches.
