Ocean Composition, Location, and Topography

Which best represents the order of seafloor features as you move from the shoreline to the deep ocean?

•  Continental slope – continental shelf- continental rise – mid-ocean ridge
•  Continental rise – continental shelf – mid-ocean ridge -  continental slope
•  Continental shelf – continental slope – continental rise – mid-ocean ridge
•    Mid-ocean ridge – continental rise – continental shelf- continental slope

The Maraina __________ is the deepest known place on Earth

• Volcanoe
• Seamount
• Ridge
• Trench

What is letter D?

• Cont. Shelf
• Mid-Ocean Ridge
• Volcanic Island
• Seamount

What is letter E?

• Volcanic Island
• Seamount
• Mid-Ocean Ridge
• Abyssal Plain

What is letter G?

• Mid-Ocean Ridge
• Rift
• Trench
• Cont. Shelf

The gradually sloping part of a continent that extends under the ocean is the...

• continental slope
• continental shelf
• abyssal plain
• trench

Seamount is similiar to...

• a volcanic island
• a small mountain or volcano
• The Great Plains
• The Grand Canyon

Rift is similiar to ...

• A hole
• A divide
• A valley
• A trench

The continental slope is located at the end of the...

• shoreline
• continental shelf
• mid ocean ridge
• abyssal plain

The place where new ocean floor forms is called the...

• mid ocean ridge
• abyssal plain
• trench
• continental shelf