Mapping the ocean floor

Front

What is sonar?

Back

Sound navigating and ranging

Front

Scientists use ______ to determine the oceans depth.

Back

Sonar

Front

The _________ is the gradually sloping end of a continent that extends under the ocean to 350 m deep.

Back

continental shelf

Front

What is it called where the ocean floor deepens sharply and its features resemble those on land, only a much larger scale with great plains and mountains?

Back

deep ocean basin

Front

What is a deep, steep-sided canyon in the ocean floor?

Back

trench

Front

What is a gently sloping, shallow area of the ocean floor that extends outward from the edge of the continent?

Back

continental shelf

Front

What letter is B? Options: Cont. Shelf, Cont. Slope, Cont. Rise, Abyssal Plain

Back

Abyssal Plain

Front

What is letter G? Options: Mid-Ocean Ridge, Rift, Trench, Cont. Shelf

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Trench

Front

What is letter A? Options: Cont. Shelf, Cont. Slope, Abyssal Plain, Abyssal Plain

Back

Cont. Slope

Front

Label C: continental slope, continental shelf, abyssal plain, sea mount

Back

abyssal plain