Ocean Floor Topography

The large, flat part of the ocean floor is called the _____________. 

• trench
• continental shelf
• continental slope
• abyssal plain

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What do you call an underwater mountain?

• trench
• abyssal plain
• seamount
• volcanic island

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

A volcanic mountain that rises above the surface of the water is called ____________

• trench
• island
• mid-ocean ridge
• seamount

What is a deep, underwater valley or canyon on the ocean floor?

• seamount
• trench
• continental rise
• continental slope

The shallowest(least deep) part of the ocean is the ____________________

• trench
• abyssal plain
• continental shelf
• continental slope

A trench is _______________

• cold and shallow
• deep and warm
•  deep and cold
• warm and shallow

If you are on the beach, laying on a beach towel and playing in the sand, you are on the _______________________

• continent
• continental slope
• abyssal plain
• continental shelf

As you go from the continental shelf to the abyssal plain, the water temperature gets _____________

• warmer
• colder

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

If you are walking into the ocean you would be on the continental...

• shelf
• slope
• rise

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

A steep drop after the continental shelf is the continental...

• slope
• shelf
• rise

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3