THE YETI CRAB

HABITAT

 So what's is a hydrothermal vent? Deep at the bottom of the ocean, the plates that make up the earth's are all stuck together. But when they meet, sometimes that create little crevices where seawater can seep in. The result is that the magma under the crust meets the water, and it spits it back out, but its heated, sometimes to even 700 degrees Fahrenheit! The water doesn't boil, though, because of the extreme pressure where the vent are formed. The minerals that shoot out solidify when meeting the freezing water, and it creates huge towers of of the solidifed minerals, where the animals then live. 

-Ellen Landrum