U2T2 - Ocean Floor Review

A/An ________________________________ is a flat, deep, and smooth part of the ocean floor. Cold temperatures are found here.

• Continental Shelf

• Abyssal Plain

• Continental Slope

• Seamount

What is the name for the gently sloping shelf of land extending from the shoreline to the continental edge?

• Continental Slope

• Continental Shelf

• Continental Rise

• Abyssal Plain

Water is the name for underwater volcanoes and pointed mountains?

• Seamounts

• Mountain Ridge

• Coastal Plains

• Abyssal Plains

What is the name for the steep portion of the ocean connecting the continent to the ocean floor?

• Ocean

• Coral Reef

• Plankton

• Continental Slope

What is the name for the sand, mud, and rocks that are found on the ocean floor?

• Jet Stream

• Photosynthesis

• Ocean Current

• Sediments

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

What is the name of the ocean zone with the warmest temperatures that is warmed by sunlight where most ocean life exists?

• Photic Zone

• Depth

• Water temperature

• Mid- Ocean Ridge

The Mariana __________ is the deepest place in the ocean.

• Volcanoe

• Seamount

• Ridge

• Trench

Which option below 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

What is letter D?

• Cont. Shelf
• Mid-Ocean Ridge
• Volcanic Island
• Seamount

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What is letter E?

• Volcanic Island
• Seamount
• Mid-Ocean Ridge
• Abyssal Plain

Tags

NGSS.4-ESS2-2