Abeka Test 6 Part 2

What is a pool of shallow, salty water called?

• Lagoon

• Rift valley

• Atoll

• Abyssal plain

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

What is the term for water flowing parallel to the beach?

• Undertow

• Rip current

• Longshore current

• Surface current

What is the period when ocean levels are at their lowest point?

• Low tide

• High tide

• Spring tide

• Mixed tide

What is the most widely known underwater mountain range?

• Mid-Atlantic Ridge

• Abyssal plain

• Continental slope

• Rift valley

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What are underwater mountain ranges called?

• Seamounts

• Mid-ocean ridges

• Trenches

• Continental rise

What is it called when one high tide is higher than the other, and one low tide is lower than the other?

• Diurnal tide

• Mixed semidiurnal tide

• Semidiurnal tide

• Spring tide

What is a weaker-than-normal tide called?

• Spring tide

• Neap tide

• Mixed tide

• Semidiurnal tide

What are plastic tubes lowered into the ocean to collect water samples called?

• Profiling floats

• Niskin bottles

• Drift bottles

• Gravity corers

What are the deep depressions in the Earth's surface that contain the oceans called?

• Trenches

• Ocean basins

• Abyssal plains

• Continental slopes

What are large streams of water that flow at or below the ocean’s surface called?

• Ocean currents

• Subsurface currents

• Undertow

• Tides

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6