3.0 - Seafloor Features

What is letter C?

• Mid-Ocean Ridge

• Continental Shelf

• Continental Slope

• Abyssal Plain

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What is letter D?

• Continental Shelf

• Mid-Ocean Ridge

• Volcanic Island

• Seamount

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What is letter G?

• Mid-Ocean Ridge

• Rift

• Trench

• Continental Shelf

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What letter is B?

• Continental Shelf

• Continental Slope

• Mid-Ocean Ridge

• Seamount

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

A seafloor feature that is a flat area of seafloor near a coastline that extends from the continent out into the ocean.

• continental slope

• continental shelf

• abyssal plain

• trench

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Seamount is similiar to...

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

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

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Which process adds more crust to the ocean floor?

• earthquakes
• sea floor spreading 
• subduction
• convection

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

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3