Oceanography Trivia

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A message in a bottle released into the ocean is most likely transported over long distances primarily by what?

Answer: Ocean currents

Bonus fact: Surface currents can carry floating bottles across large stretches of ocean.

A deep-sea trench is a long narrow depression in what?

Answer: Ocean floor

Bonus fact: Trenches form the deepest parts of the ocean.

Many deep-sea trenches form where one tectonic plate does what?

Answer: Subducts beneath another

Bonus fact: Subduction bends oceanic lithosphere downward.

What is the deepest known ocean trench?

Answer: Mariana Trench

Bonus fact: Challenger Deep lies in the Mariana Trench.

The Mariana Trench is located in which ocean?

Answer: Pacific Ocean

Bonus fact: It lies in the western Pacific east of the Mariana Islands.

What is the deepest known point in the Mariana Trench called?

Answer: Challenger Deep

Bonus fact: Challenger Deep reaches nearly 11 kilometers below sea level.

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