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ocean features sediments and stuff like that

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How do you determine the ocean floor distance when sound travels at a certain time?   You take the time and divided by 2. Then you use that time to multiple by 1,531 miles.  
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What kinds of chemcial and minerals that are two expensive to get why?   Gold and manganese. They can't be claim because it's too expensive and it could ruin the enviorment.  
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Why are bathpheres better then bathscraphs and human divers.   They are better because bathscraphs are free moving unlike bathspheres. They can last longer in water a human diver.  
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Contiental Shelf   gently extends downward from the contients of the ocean  
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Contiental Edge   point of which the shelf surrounding each con. begins to angle down the sharply to the ocean depths  
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Contiental Slope   the clifflike dropp beyond the con. shelf and the true boundary between the con. and the ocean floor  
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Contiental Rise   strethes from the lower part of the slope to the deepest part of the ocean  
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Abyssal Plain   leads to the ocean bottom formed and by under sea rivers, currents and cooling part of the Earth crust  
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Mid-Ocean Ridge   the longest mountain range in the world  
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Seamounts   free-standing mountains formed by volcanoes munerous in the Pacific  
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guyot   a flat-topped seamount  
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islands   formed by the top of seamounts  
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What creates the natural features   natural forces such as volcanoes and hurricanes ect.  
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What are the three kinds of sediments and examples of each one?   Organic-protists and marine animals (contains carbon). Inorganic-soil, iron and glaciers(does not contain carbon). Chemical and minerals- gold and manganses  
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What does sonar stand for?   Sound Navigation Ranging.  
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In nature sonar is called what?   echlocation  
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What animals have it and what do they use it for?   Porpioses, bats and dolphins use it for tracking prey and navigation.  
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How does hunan sonar affect these animals?   It disonates them  
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How does sonar worked?   It bounces high-pitched sound pukes off nearby objects.  
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What is the difference between sonar and radar?   Sonar goes through water and radar goes through air.  
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How much does sound travel at?   1,531 miles per second  
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Why do people use sonar?   To map the ocean floor. To detect ships, submarines and shipwrecks. It helpful in war.  
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A meter was in a layer for possibly how long and what may it caused?   65 million years and it could have caused the dinsours to extinct.  
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