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Ocean Floor Features

Authored by Allison Harig

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the ocean floor like?

Flat and featureless

Full of mountains and valleys

Covered in sediment

Similar to the surface of the moon

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

2.

MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

How do scientists gather information about the ocean floor?

By traveling to the ocean floor in specialized vessels

By using radio and infrared telescopes

By reflecting sound waves off the bottom of the ocean

By studying underwater volcanoes

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What causes the topography of the ocean floor to change?

Earthquakes

Plate tectonics

Underwater volcanoes

Tsunamis

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is formed when two ocean plates move away from each other?

A ridge

A trench

A seamount

A hot spot

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the Mariana Trench?

A deep crack in the ocean floor

A ridge formed by plate movement

A volcano formed at a subduction zone

The deepest part of the ocean

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Where do hot spots occur?

At divergent plate boundaries

At subduction zones

At the edge of the continental shelf

In the middle of tectonic plates

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NGSS.HS-ESS2-3

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What are seamounts?

Underwater mountains formed by plate movement

Flat regions of the ocean floor

Volcanoes that form away from plate boundaries

Underwater trenches formed by subduction

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