Science Lesson 1B

1. an underwater mountain that rises from the ocean floor but stops before it reaches the surface of the ocean

• plate boundary

• seamount

• trenches

• continent

a large landmass

• rift valley

• continent

• seamount

• continental shelf

the valley down the center of a mid-ocean ridge

• ocean

• elevation

• rift valley

• topographic

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large bodies of salt water

• elevation

• ocean

• continent

• continental slope

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the continental shelf ends at this point where a sharp downward slope begins

• continental slope

• rift valley

• trenches

• ocean

a very flat area of the deep ocean floor

• elevation

• continental shelf

• abyssal plain

• trenches

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the deepest part of the ocean floor

• trenches

• continental slope

• latitude

• plate boundary

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the ocean floor along the coast of a continent

• elevation

• longitude

• continental shelf

• trenches

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Scientists have underwater vehicles to study the _________ floor

• elevation

• continental

• ocean

• trench

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___________ maps can reveal patterns in an area

• trench

• relief

• rift valley

• ocean

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