Geology of the Ocean Floor

A community of marine organisms that depend on the specialized environment found at rift zones in the ocean floor is...

• rift community

• rift zones

• oceanic basaltic crust

• fracture zones

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

A process by which magma driven by convection currents is turned back by the lithosphere, moves laterally (meaning sideways) and descends, causing lateral (sideways) movement of earth's crust

• escarpments

• subduction zones

• seafloor spreading

• rift zones

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Linear region of unusually irregular ocean bottom that runs perpendicular to ocean ridges.

• transform fault

• fracture zones

• continental drift

• midocean ridge

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The movement of continental masses as a result of seafloor spreading.

• continental drift

• escarpments

• rift community

• midocean ridge

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

A nearly continuous line of cliffs with sharp vertical drops

• escarpments

• theory of plate tectonics

• seafloor spreading

• bathygraphic features

New earth crust formed when magma erupting from midocean ridges cools.

• fracture zones

• oceanic basaltic crust

• rift community

• bathygraphic features

A long mountain range that froms along cracks on the ocean floor

• fracture zones

• rift zones

• midocean ridge

• seafloor spreading

Region of the ocean floor where old crust sinks to the earth's core and is recycled.

• fracture zones

• subduction zones

• transform fault

• midocean ridge

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Theory stating that the movement of continental masses is the result of the movement of the plates on which they rest.

• oceanic basaltic crust

• theory of plate tectonics

• bathygraphic features

• rift zones

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Fault occurring in regions where parallel, lithospheric plates slide past each other.

• continental drift

• rift community

• escarpments

• transform fault