Ocean Floor

What percent of the Earth's surface is covered in water?

• 71
• 82
• 50
• 63

What is the steep slope at the edge of the continental shelf?

• seamount
• mid-ocean ridge
• continental slope
• rift zone

What are underwater mountain ranges called?

• continental shelf
• mid-ocean ridges
• abyssal plains
• continental slopes

Where is the shallowest part of the ocean floor?

• continental slope
• continental shelf
• abyssal plains
• rift zones

What is the flat land located on either side of the mid-ocean ridge?

• continental slope
• continental shelf
• abyssal plain
• ocean basin

What is the deepest part of the ocean basin?

• abyssal plains
• trenches
• rift zones
• mid-ocean ridge

What is an opening in the surface where lava may flow?

• trench
• seamount
• rift zone
• valley

Which of the following is the corresponding oceanic land form for canyons? 

• Mountain 
• trench 
• plains
• mid-ocean ridge 

Which of the following has the correct oceanic and continental land forms together? 

• Valley- Continental Slope
• Continental shelf- mountains
• Mid-ocean ridge- trench
• Volcano- Seamount 

a gently sloping, shallow area of the ocean floor that extends outward form the edge of the continent

• continental shelf
• continental slope
• abyssal plain
• mid-ocean ridge