Why we must explore the sea robert ballard the famed explorer who discovered the wreck of the titanic ponders what else is on the ocean floor.
What factors make it difficult to explore the ocean floor.
What factors make it difficult to explore the ocean floor.
Trying to travel to the depths of the oceans is hard.
Most of the sea floor lies between 4 000 and 6 000 metres below sea level.
It is too expensive to colonize the ocean floor.
No sunlight high pressure water is cold.
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Why does upwelling attract huge numbers of fish.
Scientists are using various other techniques such as radar to explore the ocean floor.
According to scientific american the ocean floor has been mapped to a resolution of 5 kilometers as of 2014.
This graphic shows several ocean floor features on a scale from 0 35 000 feet below sea level.
No sunlight high pressure water is cold.
Continental shelf 300 feet continental slope 300 10 000 feet abyssal plain 10 000 feet abyssal hill 3 000 feet up from the abyssal plain seamount 6 000 feet.
Another reason that marine areas are difficult to.
What factors make it difficult to explore the ocean floor.
That s why it s difficult to explore the ocean.
What factors make it difficult to explore the ocean floor.
It is very murky.
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The initial attempts to map the ocean floor for instance occurred because britain and america wanted to find the best place to lay the first transatlantic telegraph cable.
Because the oceans are not owned by one country laws are difficult to make and enforce.
The following features are shown at example depths to scale though each feature has a considerable range at which it may occur.
Plus there are many factors to count the pressure is to high it is to cold it is.
This is called the abyssal zone.