Aisle 15No. 266 of 460
Splashery
The Sea Floor
540,000 small parts. Assembled in your browser.
Empty. Now look down.
Swipe across the pack to tear it open.
Press and hold. It pulls itself together.
Let go to drop it.
It stays in its pack here. The Playground has the rest.
Earth and Maps · Built from a recipe
The Sea Floor
The Mariana Trench in the western Pacific is the deepest place in the ocean: its Challenger Deep is nearly 11 kilometers (about 7 miles) down.
Play with it in the Playground
How to play
Tap to drain the ocean and fill it back.
Toy facts
- Item
- No. 266 of 460
- Shelf
- Aisle 15, Earth and Maps
- Kind
- Built from a recipe
- Small parts
- 540,000
- Sound
- Yes
- Batteries
- None
- Assembly
- It does that itself
- Licenses
- Public domain
- Price
- $0.00
Small parts are the splats in its usual build on a computer. A phone may draw fewer.
Its controls
| Control | Kind | Range | Start |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drain the ocean | Tap | ||
| Drain the ocean | Button |
About it
The Mariana Trench in the western Pacific is the deepest place in the ocean: its Challenger Deep is nearly 11 kilometers (about 7 miles) down. It forms where the Pacific Plate sinks beneath the Mariana Plate, and the same collision built the arc of islands beside it, including Guam. This block covers about 750 kilometers, with heights from NOAA's ETOPO1 relief model, stretched up nine times so the trench and the seamounts show.
Tap it and the ocean drains away to bare the sea floor: the plains, the seamounts and the long curve of the trench, which empties last. Then the sea comes back. Colors darken with depth, as on a chart.
Details
- Splats
- Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 172,678 at Low, and up to 770,000 at Max
Sources and credits
| Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|
| ETOPO1 Global Relief Model | NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information | Public domain |
