PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Hi there! My name is Dory...at least I think it is?
One day I was just minding my own business and all of a sudden I ran into a clownfish named Marlin. He seemed lost and concerned, so I decided to help him out!
He explained to me how his son was taken by scuba divers and that he was now on a mission to rescue him.
So I offered to escort him throughout the lovely, deep, blue sea until we found the destination he was looking for.
Marlin and I adventured throughout the Pacific Ocean; traveling with a bale of turtles, facing jelly fish, and jeopardizing our lives while encountering sharks and a whale.
I have learned during my experience with Marlin many new facts and information about the characteristics of the sea.
I heard that this scuba diver was an oceanographer. That means they're scientists who study physical and biological aspects of the seas. They study, learn about different features, characteristics of something, or they experiment and test a variety of creatures in the ocean.
Continental margin and continental shelf-
In this part of the ocean, the underground land drops into a steep slope. This continental slope was where Nemo was pressured to swim out in open water to touch the "Butt".
This diagram showed me how these features are placed on the ocean floor. The continental shelf is the flat area off the coast that is connected to the continent, the region where Marlin and Nemo live in their sea anemone (coral reef). That leads off into into the continental slope, where the land acts as an underground cliff.
From there, you find the continental rise. That's where the floor starts to gently slope.
When Marlin and I swam deeper and deeper into the darkness looking for the goggles we accidentally dropped. We entered into the abyssal plain, the deep ocean basin that begins at the end of the continental margin.
Also, I've remembered that a mid-ocean ridge is an underwater mountain chain that constructs on the sea floor. As for seamounts and volcanic islands, they shape at tectonic plate boundaries or hot spots. Hot spots are where magma breaks through the overlying plate, then that volcano grows into a seamount. Once that seamount reaches sea level, it becomes a volcanic island! How interesting!
Some friendly fish guided us to this huge ocean trench, a narrow depression in the deep ocean basin. It's formed as a rift, it splits apart. Unfortunately we didn't swim through the trench, I don't know why I thought we would? I don't remember anyone saying to...so we swam over it!
That was a bad idea...
Jellyfish are very dangerous. They have tiny stinging cells in their bodies that can be harmful and paralyzingly.
Then this awesome sea turtle named Crush helped us after an incident with the pesky jellyfish. We journeyed within the Eastern Australian Current until we reached Sydney! That's where Fabio was taken, I'm almost positive that's his name.
We were then guided toward our final destination, where I asked for directions and spoke fluently in humpback to this whale! After he mistaken us for plankton and ate us, he spit us out through his blowhole and we were in Sydney's harbor!
We were in the region of Australia, the location of something per say. I forget why we are here though...
Ahh yes, I remember now! After almost being bait for a flock of seagulls, Nigel, a pelican that knew Nemo brought us to where he was! Marlin and I jumped in his mouth for the survival of water and we flew to the dreadful dentist's office.
After a long journey to rescue Nemo, we finally saved him from becoming a pet fish and staying in a fish tank. The other aquatic animals had been in there a long time it seemed.
We all went back home safe and sound. And I even got to stay a member of the sharks fascinating club. Fish are friends not food!
