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Hydrothermal Vents! Summary I got so interested about this topic! To be honest, I didn't really know what hydrothermal vents were until I read about them. There are hundreds of cracks along the ocean floor. Water comes out of those cracks that is more than 300 degrees F. That's really hot! How it happens is cold water (34 degrees-37 degrees) goes down into the cracks and it meets these really hot rocks in the Earth. The water warms up and dissolves chemicals on the rocks. Then it flows right back up to the water where it originally was. Some vents can go down even farther than 20,000 feet deep! Personal thoughts and opinions I liked reading about this topic a lot! Something that I found interesting was the fact that scientists who thought there wouldn't be any organisms, or living things, living near or at the vents found living things at the vents and yes, they were still living! This also interested me because I would think that anything that would live near a hydrothermal vent would burn, shrivel up, and die! Apparently, that's not the case here which was cool to me! In fact, there was a whole community of living things there!(AWESOME!!!!) "The organisms found in vent communities are uniThis was interesting. Not all vent communities are the same. These include tube worms that grow to lengths of 10 feet, huge white clams,(How big are those pearls????) and jelly fish like animals called siphonophores.