Continental and Oceanic Landforms

The flat, vast deep-sea ocean floor is called

• continental shelf

• abyssal plain

• ocean trench

• erosion

The part of the ocean that extends about 50 miles from shore and 200 meters deep.

• Abyssal plain

• Glacier

• Continental Shelf

• Continental Rise

Underwater mountains

• Dunes

• Deltas

• Mountains

• Seamounts

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Name a place (on land) where the feature is the opposite of an ocean trench?

• Mount Everst

• Seamount

• Earth's surface

Which part of the ocean floor is an underwater mountain range?

• trench

• mid-ocean ridge

• abyssal plain

• continental rise

From shore to sea, ocean features appear in this order:

• continental slope, abyssal plain, continental shelf

• abyssal plain, continental shelf, continental slope

• abyssal plain, continental shelf, continental slope

• continental shelf, continental slope, abyssal plain

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Any natural shape on the Earth's surface is called

• landform

• mountain

• dune

• glaciers

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Wind, moving water, and gravity causes

• weathering

• landslides

• eatherquakes

• erosion

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Which land form is formed from glaciers and by erosion from rivers?

• mountains

• valleys

• dunes

• rivers

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Dunes and deltas are formed by the deposition of sand.

• True

• False

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