Flashcards: CH19 Ocean Basins Practice

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What is letter I?

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Mid-Ocean Ridge

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What is letter F? Options: Mid-Ocean Ridge, Seamount, Trench, Continental Shelf

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Continental Shelf

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What is letter H? Options: Abyssal plain, Seamount, Continental slope, Continental rise

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Abyssal plain

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What ocean floor feature is characterized by a thick sediment bed at the bottom of the continental slope?

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Continental rise

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What is letter C? Options: Continental slope, Seamount, Mid-ocean ridge, Submarine canyon

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Seamount

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What do you call a mountain rising from the ocean seafloor that does not reach to the water's surface (sea level) and thus is not an island?

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seamount

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The tops of underwater mountains that show above the surface of the ocean form _______________. Options: islands, trenches, mountains, coral reefs

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islands

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At the end of the continental slope, the ocean floor gradually flattens into the __________________.

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abyssal plain

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What is the difference between a volcanic island & a seamount?

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A volcanic island rises above the water & a seamount does not

Front

Large mountain ridges under the ocean that are formed when molten material from deep within the Earth flow up to the surface.

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mid-ocean ridge