The Ocean Floor

The Mariana (a)   is the deepest known place on Earth

• Volcanoe
• Seamount
• Ridge
• Trench

Which 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 C? (a)  

• Mid-Ocean Ridge
• Cont. Shelf
• Cont. Slope
• Abyssal Plain

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What is letter A?

• Cont. Shelf
• Cont. Slope
• Seamount
• Abyssal Plain

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Seamount is similiar to...

• a volcanic island
• a small mountain or volcano
• The Great Plains
• The Grand Canyon

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NGSS.4-ESS2-2

What is an underwater mountain formed by a volcano?

• trench
• rift zone
• seamount
• mid ocean ridge

Where is the shallowest part of the ocean floor?

• continental slope
• continental shelf
• abyssal plains
• rift zones

What is the deepest part of the ocean basin?

• abyssal plains
• trenches
• rift zones
• mid-ocean ridge

Which of the following is the corresponding oceanic land form for canyons? 

• Mountain 
• trench 
• plains
• mid-ocean ridge 

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The ocean makes up about ________ % of the Earth's surface. 

• 100%
• 53%
• 70 %
• 90%