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**Hydrothermal vents are places at the bottom of the ocean where water more than 300 degrees fahrenheit comes out. I bet your thinking "WOW! How can that happen?". I'll tell you how. What happens is, cold water goes into cracks at the bottom of the ocean. Then, the cold water mixes with the hot rocks causing chemicals in the rocks to go back up to the ocean. The chemicals then come through openings in the ocean floor. Amazingly, there is a lot of animal life around hydrothermal vents. Tube worms that are 10 FEET LONG live around hydrothermal vents!!!!!!!! GROSS!!!! More animals that live there are huge white clams, and siphonophores which are creatures that look like jelly-fish.**
 * Hydrothermal Vents **

**I personally think hydrothermal vents are AMAZING!!!!!!!!! They have such a cool name, but they're so simple!!! At first I thought it was going to be so complicated learning about hydrothermal vents just because of the name!! After I understood what they were, though, they turned out to make so much sense! My favorite part on text book page 280 was at the very end where it talked about the animal life that lived near hydrothermal vents. I thought it was so interesting to learn that organisms can actually survive chemicals that are deadly to most organisms!**


 * Caption: Hydrothermal vent. **