TES- Ocean Floor

Two children are swimming and jumping in the waves at the beach. On which part of the ocean are they standing?

• Mountain range

• Continental shelf

• Continental rise

• Abyssal plain

What part of the ocean connects the continental shelf and the ocean floor?

• Abyssal plain

• Mountain range

• Continental wave

• Continental slope

As water flows along the continental shelf and the continental slope it picks up and carries sediments. These are deposited below the slope and form the

• Continental rise

• Abyssal plain

• Ocean mountains

• Deep-sea trench

The ocean floor

• has mountains planes and ridges like land surfaces

• is always a flat bed of sand

• Is covered by the same amount of water everywhere

• covers less area than the land

The continental shelf is shallower, wider, and less steep than the

• Ocean trench

• Continental slope

• Continental divide

• Abyssal plains

Lobster pots are used by fishermen to catch lobsters in shallow water. In which area of the ocean would commercial fisherman most likely place their lobster pots?

• on the bottom of an ocean trench

• on top of a mid-ocean ridge

• on the continental slope

• on the continental shelf

Which of these are the deepest part of the ocean?

• Ocean trenches

• abyssal plains

• continental slope

• continental shelves

If all the water in the ocean were removed, what would the land below it look like?

• mostly small hills and grasslands

• similar to land on the continents

• mostly mountains and valleys

• mostly flat like a desert

Which of these are the deepest parts of the oceans?

• Continental Shelf

• Abyssal Plain

• Ocean Trench

• Continental Rise

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Where are you walking when you are wading in the ocean?

• Ocean Trench

• Abyssal Plain

• Continental Slope

• Continental Shelf