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The following activities may help expand your deep-sea learning experience. Use them as a starting point to your own voyage of discovery!
Geology
Word Definition
Define these terms:
continental shelf
continental slope
deep ocean basin
hydrothermal vent
mantle
Mid-Ocean Ridge
plate tectonics
seafloor spreading
subduction
"Ring of Fire"
Math Activities
Let's test your knowledge of the metric system. Convert
the British units of measure in “How Deep Is the Ocean?” in
the Seafloor Geology section to metric units.
Can you calculate what the atmospheric pressure is at the Earth's deepest known point, at the bottom of the Mariana Trench?
Extra-Credit Essay Topics
Why are hydrothermal vents important?
How does Old Faithful geyser work? Compare it to a hydrothermal vent.
Biology
Word Definition
Define these terms:
Archaea
biocomplexity
chemosynthesis
genomics
microbe
Pompeii
photosynthesis
sulfur
symbiosis
tubeworm
Go Fish!
Many deep-sea fish look monstrous! Your mission is to find pictures and descriptions of at least five different deep-sea fish. What special adaptations do these fish have for living in their demanding environment?
Extra-Credit Essay Topics
Compare and contrast
photosynthesis and chemosynthesis.
Oceanographer William
Beebe wrote the book Half Mile Down about
his descent to the seafloor in 1938. Read a chapter and
report on his observations.
Exploring
the Deep
Word Definition
Define these terms:
bathyscaphe
bathysphere
fiber optics
HMS Challenger
"Jim suit"
ROV
scuba
sonar
submersible
Trieste
Design
a Submersible
A
new Alvin now is being designed. If you could design a submersible,
what would it look like and what special capabilities would
it have? Sketch it!
Extra-Credit Essay Topics
Jason is used in deep-sea research. Do some research and tell us all about it.
What other scientific tools are revolutionizing our study of the ocean?
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Many
excellent resources were used to develop our student resource
guide and Web site and may help you in your search for
more information.
 Click here for the full-color resource guide Extreme 2004: Exploring the Deep Frontier.
Also see the books, articles, and Web sites listed below and the classroom activities at left.
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Books & Magazines
Davidson, Keay, and A. R. Williams. "Under Our Skin: Hot Theories on the Center of the Earth." National Geographic 189, no. 1 (Jan. 1996): 100--112.
Dybas, Cheryl Lyn. "Life in the Abyss." Ocean Realm, Winter 1997--98, 78--95.
Earle, Sylvia A., and Al Geddings. 1980. Exploring the Deep Frontier:
The Adventure of Man in the Sea. National Geographic Society.
Greene,
Thomas F. 1998. Marine Science. New York: Amsco School Publications.
Lemonick, Michael D. "The Last Frontier." Time, Aug.
14, 1995, 52--60.
Van Dover, Cindy Lee. 2000. The Ecology of Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents. Princeton University Press.
 Web Sites
The
Bridge -- Sea Grant Ocean Sciences Education
Education Center
www.vims.edu/bridge
Deep-Sea News & Research,
by Prof. Paul Yancey, Whitman College
people.whitman.edu/~yancey/news.html#reading
Deepsea Research Newsgroup
www.le.ac.uk/biology/gat/deepsea/deepsea.html
“Deep
Sea Vents: Science at the Extreme”
www.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0010/feature6
Extreme Science
www.extremescience.com/DeepestOcean.htm
Jones and Bartlett Publishers --
Invitation to Oceanography by Paul Pinet
www.jbpub.com/oceanlink2e/
Neptune's Web: Get the Facts on Oceanography
pao.cnmoc.navy.mil/Educate/Neptune/Neptune.htm
NOAA Ocean Exploration Program
oceanexplorer.noaa.gov
Nova
Online --"Into the Abyss "
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/abyss
PBS Online/Savage Earth --"Restless Planet: Earthquakes"
www.pbs.org/wnet/savageearth/earthquakes/html/sidebar2.html
Smithsonian Institution's Ocean Planet Exhibition
seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/oceanplanet.html
University of Delaware College of Marine Studies
www.ocean.udel.edu
U.S. Geological Survey --
This Dynamic Earth: An Introduction to Plate Tectonics
by W. Jacquelyne Kious and Robert Tilling
pubs.usgs.gov/publications/text/dynamic.html
U.S. Naval Historical Center
www.history.navy.mil/index.html
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution -- "Dive and Discover" Expeditions
www.divediscover.whoi.edu
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Funding for this project was provided by the National Science
Foundation. The printed resource guide is part of
a collaborative deep-sea educational project involving
the University of Delaware, the National Science
Foundation, NOAA Sea Grant, WHYY-TV (PBS) in Wilmington/Philadelphia,
and the University of Waikato in New Zealand.
The guide and Web site were developed by the University
of Delaware Marine Public Education Office, which
coordinates the Extreme educational programs.
To learn about past and future expeditions involving University of Delaware marine scientists, visit www.ocean.udel.edu/expeditions. For information about other educational publications and programs available from the University of Delaware Graduate College of Marine Studies and the Sea Grant College Program, please visit us online at www.ocean.udel.edu. Or contact University of Delaware, Marine Public Education Office, 222 S. Chapel Street, Newark, DE 19716-3530. Phone: (302) 831-8083. E-mail: MarineCom@udel.edu.
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