The deep sea is a relatively mysterious and unknown part of the earth as only about 1 of the ocean floor has been explored by humans.
Deep water waves sea floor.
The action of someone tripping is similar to the interaction between a shallow water wave and the bottom of the ocean.
Even a tsunami wave can be nearly undetectable on the open ocean.
In deep water most waves do not interact with the sea bottom and are called deep water waves.
When deep water waves move into shallow water they change into breaking waves.
In deep water the wave reaches its natural frequency without the interruption of a sea floor or lake bottom.
Roughly 97 of the planet s water is in its oceans and the oceans are the source of the vast majority of water vapor that condenses in the atmosphere and falls as rain or snow on the continents.
The purple sea floor at the center of the view is the puerto rico trench.
The orbits of the water molecules are circular.
Perspective view of the sea floor of the atlantic ocean and the caribbean sea.
When the energy of the waves touches the ocean floor the water particles drag along the bottom and flatten their orbit fig.
These areas are the hadopelagic zone.
This is also known as the abyssal zone.
Hadopelagic zone deep ocean trenches greater than 6 000m in some places there are trenches that are deeper than the surrounding ocean floor.
Shallow water waves figure 7 4b waves which interact with the sea floor are known as shallow water waves.
In fact there have been more missions into space than journeys down to the greatest depths of the oceans.