Essential Questions-NOAA

• The NOAA stands for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration they map, and manage the waters while updating older charts
• The sonar echo allows the ship to collect information from the sea floors by emitting 3500 pings; however the intensity of the sonar echo can tell if the sea floor is hard, soft, sandy, coral, or other soft plants.
• The R.O.V helps scientist by understanding the sonar data, by sending videos and still images which eventually all is combined.
• These studies are important to society because we need to know what lies beneath our ocean floor, as well as methods of preservation.