Geological Features test review

What is an underwater mountain formed by a volcano?

• trench
• rift zone
• seamount
• mid ocean ridge

What are underwater mountain ranges called?

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

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Where is the shallowest part of the ocean floor?

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

What is the deepest part of the ocean basin?

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

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

• Mountain 
• trench 
• plains
• mid-ocean ridge 

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

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 

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Which pair represents wide, flat areas of land? 

• Mountains- Mid-Ocean Ridge
• Trench- Canyon
• Plains- Abyssal Plains
• Volcano-Seamount 

A rift zone or valley is what?

• An opening in the surface where lava may flow
• Wide-Flat areas of land
• Low land between hills or mountians
• Land which rises high about the ground

Rain washing away soil from a hillside is an example of what?

• Weathering

• Erosion

• Deposition

• Compaction

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Waves dropping sand on the beach is an example of what?

• Weathering

• Erosion

• Deposition

• Compaction

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2