Oceans and More SOL Review

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

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

Scientists use ______ to determine the oceans depth.

• Submarine
• Sonar
• Helicopter
• Light

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

• continental shelf
• trench
• seamount
• abbysal plain

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

• 71
• 82
• 50
• 63

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 do we call an underwater mountain chain?

• midocean ridge
• trench
• seamount
• volcanic island

An isolated flat-topped mountain is known as 

• guyot
• trench
• abyssal plain
• mid-ocean ridge

What is a crest?

• lowest point of a wave
• longest part of a wave
• shortest part of a wave
• highest point of a wave