Oceans and the Ocean Floor

An Abyssal Plain is similar to...

• Cont. Shelf
• The Grand Canyon
• The Great Plains
• Hidden Valley

Mid-Ocean Ridge is similiar to ...

• Seamount
• Wizard Island
• Stone Mountain
• The Rocky Mountains

A __________ is the area in an ocean basin where new ocean floor is formed

• sea mount
• continental shelf
• mid ocean ridge
• continental slope

What happens at D

• continental slope
• continental shelf
• seafloor spreading
• sea mount

When we go to beach, we are allowed to go on ____________

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

Scientists use ______ to determine the oceans depth.

• Submarine
• Sonar
• Helicopter
• Light

The _________ is the gradually sloping end of a continent that extends under the ocean to 350 m deep.

• continental shelf
• trench
• seamount
• abbysal plain

What is a deep, steep-sided canyon in the ocean floor?

• seamount
• trench
• continental rise
• continental slope

Label E

• continental slope
• volcanic island
• abyssal plain
• sea mount

Label F

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