what did i learn (friday blog)

What I learned when I was creating my experimental design was that there are a lot of spacific things i will need a lot of toold and research items. I would need a puck to get all of my sea creatues in i would need a net to drag behind the boat to get the crabs and other sea animals. I will need the right mesuring cup in order to know how much water a sea creature needs in order to stay alive while i am doing my research. I will need tool to examin my sea creater.  my boat will also have to be two levels, one level to examine my sea creaters and the other to sit and record all of the information. That is the most imporent thimgs i will need for my experimenal design of my boat.

Living and working under the sea

I think that building an underwater research station is really hard, and it takes a lot of time and money. To have an underwater research station you would need the right tools to build it and bring it under the water, as well as enough weight to force it to stay down there! When i watch and read article on underwater research stations I began to think about the struggles of haveing to live under the water, such as how would you get the right things that you need to live under there such as food and other good. And i started to think about how would those things get down to you without being damaged and or ruiened. So in order to create one of these you would need to really think about the money as well as how you will get the things you need to survive down there.

  

  

sounding the sea, a study in bathymetric mapping

1. The ocean floor can be measured and mapped by using current acoustical technology by the sound of the ocean, sound travels through water in wave like form, to create different sounds. the tools that scientist use is to detect the sounds of the ocean floor.

2. A flat abyssal plain: an underwater on the deep ocean floor, usually found at the depths between 3000 and 6000 m. lying generally between the foot of a continental rise and mid ocean ridge, covers more then 50% of  earths surface
  

3. underwater seamount or guyot: a guyot is a isolated underwater volcanic mountain with a flat top over 200 meters bellow the surface of the ocean.
  

4. Continental shelf, break, slope and rise: is the extended perimeter of each continent and associated coastal plain.


5: Submarine canyon on the continental shelf: a steep sided valley cut into the sea floor of the continental slope sometimes it extends well onto the continental shelf. depths grader the 2km bellow sea level.


6. mid-ocean ridge: another term of underwater mountain system the consistences of various mountain range typically having a valley know as rifts running running along its spine, formed by plate tectonics.


7. trench and island arc system: often composed of changes of valcanions with arc shaped aliment situated parallel and close to the boundary between two covering tectonic plates.

8. some new research questions i have is how can you tell the type of sea floor a sea has just by the waves and motion of the ocean

9. the value of this is to have us learn the different ways that the ocean floor can be identified in easy ways and not physically having to go down there.

experimental design

My experimental design that I did yesterday had to do with a lot of tools, such as buckets, water, tool, observation objects. I will need to bucket to put the sea creature that I am observing in there, and in that bucket I will need to right amount of water and the type of water. And then once I have my sea creature that I am observing I will use specific science tool to observe the creature, and I will write down all the information I will need to know about the creature. But to use all of this I will need a big boat. And in the boat there will be two levels the lower deck were I catch all my creatures as well as a upper deck were I can observe the sea creature and be in my own environment. That is everything that I will need to be able to learn about different sea creatures that are in the ocean.