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A Watered Down Topographic Map - NOAA Ocean Explorer 
Lesson PlanSummary
Students create scaled models of the sea-floor features and then generate bathymetric maps based on their models. This activity helps illustrate various sea floor topographic features and shows students how these features are translated into two-dimensional bathymetric maps.
Concept: Basins and features
There is one ocean with many basins and features shaped by the movement of the earth
Education Standards
There is one ocean with many basins and features shaped by the movement of the earth
Education Standards
75 minsMapping Deep-Sea Features - NOAA Ocean Explorer
Summary
Students use actual bathymetric data to create a two-dimensional contour map of sea floor topographic features. Next, students create a three-dimensional model of the landform on the contour map they have created to illustrate how features are translated from three-dimensional to two-dimensional models.
Concept: Basins and features
There is one ocean with many basins and features shaped by the movement of the earth
Education Standards
There is one ocean with many basins and features shaped by the movement of the earth
Education Standards
