WorksheetsOcean locations, composition, and topography
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 11mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
How much of the Earth is covered in water?
a)
70-71%
b)
97%
c)
3%
d)
2%
2.
What percentage of Earth's water is salt water?
a)
70-71%
b)
97%
c)
3%
d)
2%
3.
What percentage of Earth's water is available in rivers, lakes, underground, and in the atmosphere?
a)
70-71%
b)
97%
c)
3%
d)
1%
4.
Put the types of water in order from the greatest amount on Earth to the least amount on Earth.
a)
oceans, rivers, glaciers
b)
glaciers, rivers, oceans
c)
rivers, glaciers, oceans
d)
oceans, glaciers, rivers
5.
What percentage of ocean water is water?
a)
3.5%
b)
87%
c)
96.5%
d)
1%
6.
What percentage of saltwater is made of salts?
a)
3.5%
b)
96.5%
c)
70%
d)
2%
7.
What is salinity?
a)
the amount of matter in a specific volume
b)
the degree of how hot or cold something is
c)
the landforms of the continent or the oceans
d)
how much salt is dissolved in a liquid
8.
What is density?
a)
the amount of salt dissolved in a liquid
b)
the amount of matter in a specific volume
c)
how hot or cold something is
d)
a large piece of frozen freshwater
9.
What is the ocean's conveyor belt?
a)
water freezing at the poles
b)
water moving from the surface of the ocean to the depths of the ocean
c)
water melting at the equator
d)
waves moving on the coastline
10.
The salinity in the ocean can be increased by ____
a)
freezing the water in the oceans near the poles
b)
melting icebergs as the move to warm areas on the conveyor belt
11.
The salinity of the oceans can be decreased by____
a)
freezing ocean water near the poles
b)
melting icebergs that move to warmer water on the ocean's conveyor belt
12.
What happens when you increase the temperature of ocean water?
a)
the density increases
b)
the density decreases
c)
the water sinks
d)
the salinity increases
13.
What happens when you increase the salinity of ocean water?
a)
the temperature increases
b)
the salt amount decreases
c)
the density increases
d)
the density decreases
14.
Which number represents the Pacific Ocean?
a)
7
b)
2
c)
4
d)
9
15.
Which number represents the Atlantic Ocean?
a)
7
b)
2
c)
4
d)
9
16.
Which number represents the Indian Ocean?
a)
7
b)
2
c)
4
d)
9
17.
Which number represents the Arctic Ocean?
a)
7
b)
2
c)
4
d)
9
18.
Which ocean landform is created from lava that builds and breaks the surface of the ocean water?
a)
abyssal plain
b)
trench
c)
volcanic island
d)
continental shelf
19.
Which ocean landform is made from a divergent plate boundary and looks like small mountains?
a)
mid-ocean ridge
b)
seamount
c)
trench
d)
continental slope
20.
Which ocean landform is the major drop that leads to the ocean floor?
a)
continental slope
b)
abyssal plain
c)
volcanic island
d)
mid-ocean ridge
21.
Which landform is the deep hole that can be made at a convergent plate boundary?
a)
continental shelf
b)
continental slope
c)
seamount
d)
trench
22.
What is an under ocean mountain called?
a)
abyssal plain
b)
continental slope
c)
seamount
d)
trench
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