Ocean Floor Features Quiz

What is the name of the underwater mountain ranges?

• Trenches

• Mid-ocean Ridges

• Guyots

• Seamounts

What separates the continental shelf from the ocean floor?

• Seamounts

• Guyots

• Mid-ocean Ridges

• Continental Slope

What is the deepest spot in the ocean?

• Trenches

• Mid-ocean Ridges

• Guyots

• Seamounts

What is the name of the theory that suggests Earth's continents were once one large landmass?

• Crustal Plate Movement

• Seafloor Spreading

• Continental Drift

• Plate Tectonics

What is the name of the continuous mountain chain from the Arctic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean?

• Mid-Atlantic Ridge

• East Pacific Rise

• Mid-ocean Ridge

• Continental Slope

What is the edge of the continent that is under water called?

• Continental Rise

• Continental Shelf

• Abyssal Plain

• Continental Slope

What are flat-topped seamounts called?

• Trenches

• Mid-ocean Ridges

• Guyots

• Abyssal Hills

What is the name of the steep underwater cliff that separates the continental shelf from the ocean floor?

• Seamounts

• Guyots

• Mid-ocean Ridges

• Continental Slope

What provides pockets of oil and natural gas on the continental shelf?

• Mineral Deposits

• Seamounts

• Sediments

• Turbidity Currents

What is the name of the German scientist who suggested the theory of continental drift?

• Alfred Wegener

• Charles Darwin

• Alfred Wallace

• Isaac Newton