SEAFLOOR PROFILING—Lesson #2: Echolocation student handout.

 

 

(1) What did the ping pong ball represent?

 

(2) What did the teacher’s hand represent?

 

(3) What did the classroom floor represent?

 

(4) Was there any difference in the round-trip time between the shallow seafloor and the deeper seafloor?

 

(5) If there was a difference, which round trip took the longest?

 

(6) Explain in your own words how this activity is a model for seafloor profiling using echolocation.