Draw A Cross Section Of The Ocean Floor

The ocean surface is indicated by a dashed line.

Draw a cross section of the ocean floor.

The diagram above is a drawing of the bottom profile of the north atlantic ocean basin from the u s. The sea floor can be subdivided into three major features. To understand the methods used to sound measure ocean depths to covert a series of ppp osition and depth measurements into contours isobaths on a bathymetric chart to visualize a sea floor landscape using a bathymetric chart to visualize and draw a cross section of sea floor topography using a chart. Label the convergent boundary.

Cross section of the north atlantic ocean basin from the u s. Label the ocean ridge. 1 use a shoe box with approximate dimensions 6 5 x 13 by 5 deep. On the floor plan drawing above at the upper and lower left there are two a s surrounded by circular icons with an arrow.

The arrow indicates in which direction the cross section looks. The ocean surface is indicated by a dashed line. Sea floor spreading model directions. To create a cross section first draw a line on your floor plan that cuts through a section of the house for which you need to show cross section detail.

Two continental shelves abyssal plain choose one sland ocean ridge ocean trench use the diagram to answer the following questions about features found on the ocean floor. 2 trim as indicated the pages labeled left portion of side of shoe box and right. Label the divergent boundary. On graph paper draw the horizontal and vertical axes from your cross section.

On the cross section draw arrows to label the following ocean floor features. The following features are shown at example depths to scale though each feature has a considerable range at which it may occur. The cross section below shows the tectonic plates making up an ocean floor and two continents. 3 turn the shoe box over so that the opening is down.

Your vertical axes need to use a scale distance between each increment that will not exaggerate the height of the cross section. Label the ocean trench. Label the mountains volcanoes on land. This graphic shows several ocean floor features on a scale from 0 35 000 feet below sea level.

The length of the horizontal access should be as wide as the distance between points a and b. Glue these two pages together to form the cross section through the earth. These icons indicate that the construction drawings will contain a detailed cross section for this slice of the house. 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.

Coast to europe showing the major features of the ocean floor. Plate boundaries in oceans below is a cross section of the ocean floor and nearby land showing the surface features.