GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -Then explain to students that the Mariana Trench is the deepest part of the ocean and the deepest location on Earth. It is 11, 034 meters (36, 201 feet) deep, which is almost 7 miles.

Detailed explanation-2: -The distance between the surface of the ocean and the trench’s deepest point-the Challenger Deep, which lies about 200 miles (322 kilometers) southwest of the U.S. territory of Guam-is nearly 7 miles (11 kilometers).

Detailed explanation-3: -One reason the Mariana Trench is so deep, he added, is because the western Pacific is home to some of the oldest seafloor in the world-about 180 million years old. Seafloor is formed as lava at mid-ocean ridges. When it’s fresh, lava is comparatively warm and buoyant, riding high on the underlying mantle.

Detailed explanation-4: -Mariana Trench, also called Marianas Trench, deep-sea trench in the floor of the western North Pacific Ocean, the deepest such trench known on Earth, located mostly east as well as south of the Mariana Islands.

Detailed explanation-5: -In the Pacific Ocean, somewhere between Guam and the Philippines, lies the Marianas Trench, also known as the Mariana Trench. At 35, 814 feet below sea level, its bottom is called the Challenger Deep-the deepest point known on Earth.