Ocean Floor

What is an underwater mountain formed by a volcano?

• trench
• rift zone
• seamount
• mid ocean ridge

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

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What are valleys between the mountain ridges?

• rift zones
• trenches
• abyssal plains
• continental slope

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

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

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Which of the following is the corresponding Continental land form for the Abyssal Plain. 

• Plains
• Mountain
• Dessert 
• Valley 

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

• Mountain 
• trench 
• plains
• mid-ocean ridge 

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3