The Ocean Floor

Flat, deep, and smooth part of the ocean floor. Cold temperatures are found here.

• Continental Shelf

• Abyssal Plain

• Continental Slope

• Seamounts

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Sharp underwater hill connecting the continent to the ocean floor?

• Ocean

• Coral Reef

• Plankton

• Continental Slope

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

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

• seamount
• trench
• continental rise
• continental slope

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

• shelf
• slope
• rise

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

the deepest part of the ocean

• trenches
• abyssal plain
• ocean basin
• rift

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

the underwater edge of a continent

• continental slope

• trench

• continental shelf

• abyssal plain

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

A gently sloping area that connects the steep walls of the continental slope to the bottom of the ocean floor is called the... (sediments/deposition)

• Abyssal Plain

• Ocean Trench

• Continental Rise

• Mid-Ocean Ridges

What is the sediment underwater feature found between the slope and the abyssal plains?

• continental rise

• continental shelf

• continental slope

Which of these are the deepest parts of the oceans?

• Continental Shelf

• Abyssal Plain

• Ocean Trench

• Continental Rise

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3