Marine Science: Plate Tectonics and the Ocean Floor

The descending slope which connects the seafloor to the continental shelf.

• continental shelf

• trench

• guyot

• continental slope

An underwater mountain range that is an oceanic spreading center. Responsible for the creation of new ocean floor.

• trench

• mid-ocean ridge

• abyssal plain

• continental shelf

Name feature A

• trench

• continental slope

• guyot

• mid-ocean ridge

Name feature B

• guyot

• seamount

• abyssal plain

• volcanic island

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Name feature B

• guyot

• seamount

• abyssal plain

• volcanic island

Flat or very gently sloping areas of the ocean floor.

• abyssal plain

• continental shelf

• trench

• continental floor

A mountain rising from the ocean floor that does not reach water's surface.

• volcanic island

• continental shelf

• seamount

• guyot

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Name feature C

• guyot

• seamount

• abyssal plain

• continental shelf

The extended part of each continent that is under water.

• trench

• guyot

• continental shelf

• volcanic island

This trench is the deepest part of the world's ocean and the deepest location on the surface of the earth.

• trench

• guyot

• Mariana Trench

• seamount