Ocean Floor Underwater Landforms

Underwater volcanic activity that adds mountains to either side of the mid ocean ridge occurs at the rift zone.

Ocean floor underwater landforms. This list may not reflect recent changes. Underwater landforms are landforms that you see on land but at the bottom of some body of water usually the ocean. Trenches steep sided canyons and deep narrow valleys in the bottom of the ocean. What types of landforms are there on the ocean floor.

These underwater landscapes are in an endless cycle of construction and destruction as new crust is born along mid ocean ridges pushing old crust into the depths of the fiery mantle. Students may suggest there are mountains valleys or flat areas. Underwater ridges of the atlantic ocean 1 c 8 p v volcanoes of the atlantic ocean 15 c 24 p pages in category landforms of the atlantic ocean the following 21 pages are in this category out of 21 total. Beneath the smooth ocean surface extends an underwater landscape as complex as anything you might find on land.

Have students imagine what the ocean floor might be like. While the ocean has an average depth of 2 3 miles the shape and depth of the seafloor is complex. Brainstorm and define underwater landforms. Below is a beautiful map of all the underwater topography fancy word for landforms in geography of the earth s oceans.