On graph paper draw the horizontal and vertical axes from your cross section.
Draw a cross section of the ocean floor.
The arrow indicates in which direction the cross section looks.
The cross section below shows the tectonic plates making up an ocean floor and two continents.
The length of the horizontal access should be as wide as the distance between points a and b.
Label the mountains volcanoes on land.
The sea floor can be subdivided into three major features.
Coast to europe showing the major features of the ocean floor.
Label the ocean trench.
Label the convergent boundary.
The ocean surface is indicated by a dashed line.
On the floor plan drawing above at the upper and lower left there are two a s surrounded by circular icons with an arrow.
Sea floor spreading model directions.
On the cross section draw arrows to label the following ocean floor 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.
Use the previous side view drawings and figure 2 for reference and use arrows to indicate the relative direction of plate motion.
1 use a shoe box with approximate dimensions 6 5 x 13 by 5 deep.
This graphic shows several ocean floor features on a scale from 0 35 000 feet below sea level.
Glue these two pages together to form the cross section through the earth.
Plate boundaries in oceans below is a cross section of the ocean floor and nearby land showing the surface features.
The diagram above is a drawing of the bottom profile of the north atlantic ocean basin from the u s.
In the space below draw an approximate continuous cross section side view of the ocean basin from point a to point b from lower left to upper right.
These icons indicate that the construction drawings will contain a detailed cross section for this slice of the house.
Label the ocean ridge.
2 trim as indicated the pages labeled left portion of side of shoe box and right.
The ocean surface is indicated by a dashed line.
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.
All the best ocean floor drawing 40 collected on this page.
3 turn the shoe box over so that the opening is down.
Label the divergent boundary.
The following features are shown at example depths to scale though each feature has a considerable range at which it may occur.
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.
