Ocean

This is soil, sand, and minerals that are washed from land into water by weathering and erosion.

• waves
• sediment
• trench
• salinity

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

What 3 things cause currents?

• wind patterns, temperature, and salinity
• temperature, sediment, sun
• waves, the moon, sediment
• shallow water, temperature, and salinity

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

What is the steep slope at the edge of the continental shelf?

• seamount
• mid-ocean ridge
• continental slope
• rift zone

What are underwater mountain ranges called?

• continental shelf
• mid-ocean ridges
• abyssal plains
• continental slopes

Where is the shallowest part of the ocean floor?

• continental slope
• continental shelf
• abyssal plains
• rift zones

What is the flat land located on either side of the mid-ocean ridge?

• continental slope
• continental shelf
• abyssal plain
• ocean basin

Label A

• continental slope
• continental shelf
• abyssal plain
• sea mount

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Label B

• continental slope
• continental shelf
• abyssal plain
• sea mount

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Label C

• continental slope
• continental shelf
• abyssal plain
• sea mount

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

How much salt is in something is called_____________

• Salinity
• Evaporation
• Seamount