seafloor features

What is letter C?

• Mid-Ocean Ridge

• Continental Shelf

• Continental Slope

• Abyssal Plain

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What is letter F?

• Mid-Ocean Ridge

• Guyot

• Seamount

• Volcanic Island

What is letter G?

• Mid-Ocean Ridge

• Rift

• Trench

• Continental Shelf

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What letter is B?

• Continental Shelf

• Continental Slope

• Mid-Ocean Ridge

• Seamount

A seafloor feature that is a flat area of seafloor near a coastline that extends from the continent out into the ocean.

• continental slope

• continental shelf

• abyssal plain

• trench

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What is the deepest part of the oceans?

• Mid-ocean ridge

• Abyssal plain

• Trench

What ocean floor feature is characterized by a thick sediment bed at the bottom of the continental slope?

• Trench

• Continental shelf

• Mid-ocean ridge

• Continental rise

What do you call a mountain rising from the ocean seafloor that does not reach to the water's surface (sea level) and thus is not an island?

• trench
• abyssal plain

• seamount
• seamount island

The flattest parts of the ocean floor 5 or 6 km below sea level

• abyssal plain

• beach

• barrier island

• deep sea trench

What is the difference between a volcanic island & a seamount?

• A volcanic island rises above the water & a seamount does not
• A seamount rises above the water & a volcanic island does not
• Both the seamount & volcanic island are underwater
• Both the seamount & the volcanic island rise above the water