Ocean Floor

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

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

• seamount
• trench
• continental rise
• continental slope

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

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

mountain ranges in the ocean

• mid -ocean ridge
• trenches
• rift
• ocean basin

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

the deepest part of the ocean

• Challenger Deep

• Monterey Bay

• continental slope

• mid-ocean ridge

Which process adds more crust to the ocean floor?

• earthquakes
• sea floor spreading 
• subduction
• convection

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

This boundary is also called a colliding boundary.

• transform
• convergent
• divergent

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3