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It is very important that guests get a good understanding of what they would be seeing. What is that and why is it so important to the ocean? Below listed is important vocabulary, manly mentioned and defined in the brochure itself, as well as some extras for more information! All of these words were listen in the brochure and can be seen on tours. Whether it was a virtual tour an up close submarine tour guests will walk away with a great visual of these geographical features and know more about them.

Continental Shelf: the area of the seabed that is shallow compared to the open ocean; right before the big drop into the open ocean.

Continental Slope: The big drop/slope after the continental shelf. This is where the ocean begins to get much deeper and continues to bet deeper for miles out. The best way to get a visual of the continental slope is picture in Finding Nemo the big drop off from the coral reef into the open ocean; that drop off is the continental slope!

Coral Reefs: Underwater ecosystems characterized by reef building corals. There are hundreds of coral reefs all over the world, home to thousands of species and very popular tourist destinations in central and Southern America, Australia and Asia.

Black Smokers: Hydro-thermal Vents that can be found deep in the ocean floor. Super hot water comes out, hot enough to melt the first thermometer that tried to take the water's temperature. They are called black smokers because they have black smoke coming out of them. They get the black color from all the minerals that are being collected from under-ground and shot up into the ocean.

White Smoker: Similar to black smokers, it is hydro-thermal Vents that can be found deep in the ocean floor. White smokers are much cooler than black smokers but still very hot. The reason they are white, not black is because there are no minerals to change their color. Minerals dissolve away at an early stage and keep the smoke a nice white color.

Mariana Trench: This trench is the deepest place in the whole world!!! Measuring at about 2550 km. The trench once thought to hold no life to surprise holds as a home for many species. This could include clams, muscles and crabs. No light reaches this trench, but many species have developed a luminescent glow to them, making them visible without light.

Abyssal Hills: A small hill that rises from the floor of an abyssal plain. They are the most abundant geographic structures on the planet Earth, covering more than 30% of the ocean floors. Abyssal hills have relatively sharply defined edges and climb to heights of no more than a few hundred meters.

Abyssal Plain: An underwater plain on the deep ocean floor, usually found at depths between 3,000 meters (9,800 ft) and 6,000 meters (20,000 ft). Lying generally between the foot of a continental rise and a mid-ocean ridge, abyssal plains cover more than 50% of the Earth's surface.

Passive Margins: The transition between oceanic and continental lithosphere that is not an active plate margin. A passive margin forms by sedimentation above an ancient rift, now marked by transitional lithosphere. Continental rifting creates new ocean basins.

Active Margins: Found on the leading edge of the continent where it is crashing into an oceanic plate. An excellent example is the west coast of South America. Active margins are commonly the sites of tectonic activity: earthquakes, volcanoes, mountain building, and the formation of new igneous rock.

Mid-Ocean Ridge: An underwater mountain range, formed by plate tectonics. This uplifting of the ocean floor occurs when convection currents rise in the mantle beneath the oceanic crust and create magma where two tectonic plates meet at a divergent boundary.

Volcanoes: A mountain or hill, typically conical, having a crater or vent through which lava, rock fragments, hot vapor, and gas are being or have been erupted from the earth's crust. The Hawaiian Islands are a series of volcanoes!

Reflection:

Overall this project went very well! I believe I did a good job on this project and went above the requirements. Something I did a good job on was the creativity aspect of this project. I thought I came up with really cool ideas that I would personally want to experience in my life. For example, the virtual tour of the Mariana Trench. The Mariana Trench would be a very dangerous journey to send non experienced tourists down to see. It would also be a very small, long and uncomfortable journey. Though, with a virtual tour, guests get much better views of the trench and can see the wildlife "up close," just over a screen. It created a super cool, real experience, that is very informational and leaves guests excited about the ocean. Also, another idea that I loved was that you could swim above the abyssal plains. Yes, guests would not be able to see them, but being able to go swimming in the middle of the ocean is such an amazing experience, that I have experienced for more myself and want others to experience as well. As well as creativity, I think I managed my time well for this project. I had a very busy moving week, yet still was able to make a great project. I knew if I waited until the last minute the project would be super rushed and not as good. I split up the workload around my busy moving schedule and ended up creating a project much better than I could have imagined in the first place.

Every project has room for improvement and I think there were two things I could have done better. The first being organization. Even though my brochure was very organized, it could have been even better. The layout could have been designed more for front and back. Meaning keeping certain topics more together. Also, if I did this and wrote smaller, then I could probably have had room for more information. This would have been great because I could have described my resort itself more and gotten into way more detail about the tours and features a guest could see on them. Overall would have had more room to make it much more educational. Something that I will keep in mind for next time! The other thing I could have done better on was completing it a day sooner. I had it organized to be done on the day it was due. Though, with moving time was a little tough and stressful. I was able to complete the project but if I had it set up to be completed one day sooner it would have been much less stressful. As well as that, I also could have used that time to go over the project one last time and make it that much better. Another thing I will try to incorporate next time in my project to make it even better and less stressful for myself!