Chapter 13 Test Review

Arrange the terms below in order from land toward the middle of an ocean basin by dragging and dropping them into the correct order.

• slope

• abyssal plain

• shelf

• beach

• rise

A longshore bar is associated with which ocean basin region?

(a)  

A feature found in continental slopes that was likely carved by runoff water from the Flood is a(n) (a)   .

• submarine canyon
• oceanic trench
• continental shelf
• mid-ocean ridge

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

An underwater feature that forms at divergent tectonic plate boundaries is a(n) (a)   .

• mid-ocean ridge
• volcano
• mountain range
• ocean trench

What is the correct name for a submerged volcano?

• Atoll

• Barrier Reef

• Seamount

• Oceanic Trench

The Challenger Deep is associated with this type of feature: (a)   .

• oceanic trench
• mountain range
• volcanic island
• river delta

(True or False) Sea level is the same elevation everywhere on Earth.

• True

• False

The only substance dissolved in seawater is salt.

• True

• False

This area of ocean above the continental shelf is similar to the photic zone.

• A. intertidal zone

• B. littoral zone

• C. photic zone

• D. aphotic zone

• E. abyssal zone

No light from the surface reaches these two zones.

• A. intertidal zone

• B. littoral zone

• C. photic zone

• D. aphotic zone

• E. abyssal zone