WorksheetsOcean Features
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 42mins
Valleys cut deep into the ocean floor
Plankton
Salinity
Surface Current
Ocean Trench
Flat, deep, and smooth part of the ocean floor. Cold temperatures are found here.
Continental Shelf
Abyssal Plain
Continental Slope
Seamounts
Warm water surface current located on the coast (Gulf of Mexico)
Gulf Stream
Ecosystem
Organism
Density
Warm water that moves from the equator to the cold polar regions Example: Gulf Stream & North Atlantic Drift
Jet Stream
Surface Current
Gulf Stream
Under Water Currents
Underwater Volcanoes and Mountains?
Seamounts or Mid- Ocean Ridge
Mountain Ridge
Coastal Plains
Abyssal Plains
gently sloping shelf of land extending from the shoreline to the continental edge
Continental Slope
Continental Shelf
Continental Rise
Abyssal Plain
the constant movement of ocean water that is caused by the patterns of wind and water density
Ocean Current
Continental Drift
Land Before Time
Zooplankton
sound waves used to make a map of the ocean floor
ocean floor topography
sonar
seamount
continental slope
an underwater mountain chain where new ocean floor is formed
mid-ocean ridge
seamount
guyot
abyssal plain
How many major oceans are there in the world?
7
6
5
4
According to Wegener's hypothesis of continental drift,
Earth is slowly cooling and shrinking
the continents were once joined together in a single supercontinent
the continents DO NOT move
Earth's surface is made up of seven major landmasses
In Seafloor Spreading, molten material rises from the mantle and erupts or flows out
along the edges of all the continents
in the deep ocean trenches
along mid-ocean ridges
in the north and south poles
