Sci.G4 Ocean Floor & Zones

As depth increases..........

• Things become shallow

• temperature decreases, pressure increases, and light decreases

• It is more salty

• An Ocean Current

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

Which word descries how deep the water is in a given location

• Ocean Trench

• Sediment

• Depth

• Abyssal Plain

Valleys cut deep into the ocean floor

• Plankton

• Salinity

• Surface Current

• Ocean Trench

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

• Continental Shelf

• Abyssal Plain

• Continental Slope

• Seamounts

Underwater Volcanoes and Mountains?

• Seamounts or Mid- Ocean Ridge

• Mountain Ridge

• Coastal Plains

• Abyssal Plains

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

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

• Continental Slope

• Continental Shelf

• Continental Rise

• Abyssal Plain

Sharp underwater hill connecting the continent to the ocean floor?

• Ocean

• Coral Reef

• Plankton

• Continental Slope

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Sand, Mud, and rocks that are found on the ocean floor are called?

• Jet Stream

• Photosynthesis

• Ocean Current

• Sediments

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

The Mariana __________ is the deepest known part of the ocean floor

• Volcanoe

• Seamount

• Ridge

• Trench

Which best represents the order of seafloor features as you move from the shoreline to the deep ocean?

•  Continental slope – continental shelf- continental rise – mid-ocean ridge
•  Continental rise – continental shelf – mid-ocean ridge -  continental slope
•  Continental shelf – continental slope – continental rise – mid-ocean ridge
•    Mid-ocean ridge – continental rise – continental shelf- continental slope