Coastal Features and Seafloor Review

A Piece of land almost completely surrounded by water (ex: Florida, Italy)

• Delta

• Submarine Canyon

• Bay

• Peninsula

This is an inlet of the sea

• Delta

• Bay

• Peninsula

• Cape

an alluvial deposit at the mouth of a river

• Delta

• Cape

• Bay

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Flat zone extending from the shore beneath the ocean surface

• Continental Slope

• Continental Rise

• Continental Shelf

Gently sloping surface lying seaward of the continental shelf

• Continental Slope

• Continental Rise

• Abyssal plain

• Continental Shelf

Shallow water areas close to the continent?

• Passive Margin

• Active Margin

• Continental Margin

• Cape

an undersea hill or mountain

• Delta

• Submarine Canyon

• Seamount

• Lagoon

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

A ring shaped coral reef surrounding a lagoon

• Atoll

• Island Chain

• Lagoon

• Seamount

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Deepest parts of the ocean located on the edge of convergence zones

• Abyssal Plain

• Continental Slope

• Trench

Deep canyon cut into the continental shelf and slope

• Trench

• Ridge

• submarine canyon

• Atoll

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2