Research Question and Scholarly Sources

 Main Question:

From mermaids to the megalodon, there are various different theories and beliefs as to what is actually living in the vast unknown waters of the ocean. However, based on what we do know there are several differences between species that live in the upper levels of the ocean and the bottom of it. How do the extremely different environmental conditions at the bottom of the ocean and their influence on species, create a belief of almost alien life found in these unknown waters?

Sources: 

Xu, Zhimeng, et al. “Vertical Distribution of Microbial Eukaryotes from Surface to the Hadal 

Zone of the Mariana Trench.” Frontiers in Microbiology, vol. 9, FRONTIERS MEDIA 

SA, 2018, pp. 2023–2023, doi:10.3389/fmicb.2018.02023.

Nakanishi, Masao, and Jun Hashimoto. “A Precise Bathymetric Map of the World’s Deepest 

Seafloor, Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench.” Marine Geophysical Researches, vol. 

32, no. 4, Springer Netherlands, 2011, pp. 455–63, doi:10.1007/s11001-011-9134-0.

Wang, Zhi-Peng, et al. “Fungal Community Analysis in Seawater of the Mariana Trench as 

Estimated by Illumina HiSeq.” RSC Advances, vol. 9, no. 12, ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY, 2019, pp. 6956–64, doi:10.1039/c8ra10142f.