Ocean Floor Features

Which of the following is the shallow part of the ocean floor near the shore where marine life lives?

• continental rise

• continental slope

• continental shelf

• trench

The steep slope at the edge of the continental shelf is the...

• continental slope

• continental rise

• continental shelf

• abyssal plain

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The deepest parts of the ocean are...

• continental shelf

• abyssal plains

• continental slopes

• trenches

Where the continent ends and the ocean begins is called the...

• continental shelp

• continental rise

• continental slope

• trenches

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What part of the ocean floor is labeled "D"?

• Abyssal plain

• continental shelf

• trench

• continental rise

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What part of the ocean floor is labeled "A"?

• abyssal plain

• continental rise

• continental slope

• continental shelf

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What part of the ocean floor is labeled "C"?

• abyssal plain

• continental rise

• continental slope

• continental shelf

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What part of the ocean floor is labeled "E"?

• abyssal plain

• continental slope

• trench

• continental rise

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

what part of the ocean floor is labeled "B"?

• abyssal plains

• trench

• continental rise

• continental slope

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The flat surface on the ocean floor is called...

• trench

• continental shelf

• abyssal plains

• continental rise

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3