Question

3) Explain the Indian ocean with respect to
following aspects :
a) Ocean Trenches
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Answer 1

Answer:

Explanation:

The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering 70,560,000 km (27,240,000 sq mi) or 19.8% of the water on the Earth's surface.It is bounded by Asia to the north, Africa to the west, and Australia to the east. To the south it is bounded by the Southern Ocean or Antarctica, depending on the definition in use.

                      Oceanic trench

             Oceanic trenches are topographic depressions of the sea floor, relatively narrow in width, but very long. These oceanographic features are the deepest parts of the ocean floor. Oceanic trenches are a distinctive morphological feature of convergent plate boundaries, along which lithosphere plates move towards each other at rates that vary from a few millimeters to over ten centimeters per year