Ocean Features

Valleys cut deep into the ocean floor

• Plankton

• Salinity

• Surface Current

• Ocean Trench

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

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

• Continental Shelf

• Abyssal Plain

• Continental Slope

• Seamounts

Warm water surface current located on the coast (Gulf of Mexico)

• Gulf Stream

• Ecosystem

• Organism

• Density

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Warm water that moves from the equator to the cold polar regions Example: Gulf Stream & North Atlantic Drift

• Jet Stream

• Surface Current

• Gulf Stream

• Under Water Currents

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Underwater Volcanoes and Mountains?

• Seamounts or Mid- Ocean Ridge

• Mountain Ridge

• Coastal Plains

• Abyssal Plains

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

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

• Continental Slope

• Continental Shelf

• Continental Rise

• Abyssal Plain

the constant movement of ocean water that is caused by the patterns of wind and water density

• Ocean Current

• Continental Drift

• Land Before Time

• Zooplankton

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

What do you call an underwater mountain?

• trench
• abyssal plain
• seamount
• volcanic island

the deepest part of the ocean

• trenches
• abyssal plain
• ocean basin
• rift

sound waves used to make a map of the ocean floor

• ocean floor topography

• sonar

• seamount

• continental slope