What’s at the bottom of the ocean?

Question: What's at the bottom of the ocean?
- Keywords:
  earth,
  ocean,
  water
Asked by to Nat, Nate, Roberto, Sam, Sarah on 16 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
- Sarah Casewell answered on 16 Jun 2014:
  
  Some very odd creatures I think! These have evolved without light and sometimes live near active underwater volcanoes so they’ve adapted to their environment really well.
- Nate Bastian answered on 17 Jun 2014:
  
  The ocean floor is largely just a barren place, with many metres of silt and very few life forms. However, there is life down there. When an animal dies near the surface, it often sinks all the way down to the bottom. Once there, crabs, eels, worms, sharks, and weird animals can “smell” it from miles away, and they all rush there to get a meal.
  
  In other parts of the ocean you have vast mountain ranges, huge canyons, and even volcanos!
- Natasha Stephen answered on 18 Jun 2014:
  
  Along with everything already mentioned, you’d also find a lot of meteorites down there! We have ~60,000 meteorites on Earth already and with so much of the Earth’s surface covered in water, imagine how many could be down there that we don’t know anything about…

Question: What's at the bottom of the ocean?