Ocean Floor Quiz Review

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

• Continental Shelf

• Abyssal Plain

• Continental Slope

• Seamounts

steep decline, after the continental shelf

• Ocean

• Coral Reef

• Plankton

• Continental Slope

gently sloping shelf of land extending from the shoreline to the continental edge

• Continental Slope

• Continental Shelf

• Continental Rise

• Abyssal Plain

What do you call an underwater mountain?

• trench
• abyssal plain
• seamount
• volcanic island

A volcanic mountain that rises above the surface of the water is called ____________

• trench

• island

• mid-ocean ridge

• seamount

the deepest part of the ocean

• trenches
• abyssal plain
• ocean basin
• rift

an underwater mountain chain where new ocean floor is formed

• mid-ocean ridge

• seamount

• guyot

• abyssal plain

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Name feature A

• trench

• continental slope

• guyot

• mid-ocean ridge

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Name feature B

• guyot

• seamount

• abyssal plain

• volcanic island

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Name feature C

• guyot

• seamount

• abyssal plain

• continental shelf