Ocean Topography

An area of fairly shallow water that surrounds land. Gently slopes form the land into the ocean.

• Continental Slope

• Continental Shelf

• Abyssal Plain

• Mid-Ocean Ridge

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

The end of the Continental Shelf. A steep drop off where the seafloor drops dramatically.

• Continental Slope

• Continental Shelf

• Trench

• Rift Valley

What is a continental shelf?

• Gently sloping, shallow area

• Underwater, inactive volcanic mountains

• A smooth, flat area on the ocean floor

• A geyser on the ocean floor

What is a continental slope?

• A gently sloping, shallow area

• A continuous underwater mountain range

• At the edge of the shelf, the ocean floor drops down an incline

• Underwater, inactive volcanic mountains

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

A deep undersea valley located along the center of the mid- ocean ridge

• guyot

• seamount

• continental shelf

• rift valley

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

flat-topped seamount

• abyssal plain

• mid-ocean ridge

• guyot

• rift

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

a smooth, nearly flat region of the deep ocean floor

• abyssal plain

• guyot

• rift

• mid-ocean ridge

the steep slope between the outer edge of the continental shelf and the deep ocean floor

• continental shelf

• guyot

• continental slope

• trench

the underwater edge of a continent

• continental slope

• trench

• continental shelf

• abyssal plain

an underwater mountain chain where new ocean floor is formed

• mid-ocean ridge

• seamount

• guyot

• abyssal plain