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REVIEW:
This site provides an interactive way for students to learn about
hydrothermal vents. The vents exist on the seafloor as much as 1.5
miles below the surface and support a rich ecosystem that includes
fish, shrimp, tubeworms, mussels, crabs and clams. In areas of the
seafloor with volcanic activity, water seeps through the cracks
beneath the earth’s crust and is heated up to 756 degrees
Fahrenheit and then gushes out in what looks like clouds of smoke.
Visitors to the site can learn how the vents are formed, the human
submersible used to explore them and about each of the various life
forms that exists there such as anemones, zoarcid fish, and the
Pompeii worm.
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October
2005
