Ocean Topography

True or False: The Mid-Atlantic ridge in the Atlantic ocean is the ONLY example of a divergent boundary (<---->)

• True
• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The large, flat part of the ocean floor is called the _____________. 

• trench
• continental shelf
• continental slope
• abyssal plain

What do you call a cone-shaped underwater mountain?

• trench

• abyssal plain

• seamount

• volcanic island

What is a deep, underwater valley or canyon on the ocean floor?

• seamount
• trench
• continental rise
• continental slope

If you are walking into the ocean you would be on the continental...

• shelf
• slope
• rise

the deepest part of the ocean

• trenches
• abyssal plain
• ocean basin
• rift

sound waves used to make a map of the ocean floor

• ocean floor topography

• sonar

• seamount

• continental slope

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NGSS.MS-PS4-2

the steep drop-off between the outer edge of the continental shelf and the deep ocean floor

• continental shelf

• guyot

• continental slope

• trench

an underwater mountain chain where new ocean floor is formed

• mid-ocean ridge

• seamount

• guyot

• abyssal plain

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The largest ocean in the world is the

• Atlantic

• Pacific

• Indian

• Arctic

• Southern