Ocean Review

An underwater _________________is a mountain or volcano.

• mid-ocean ridge
• seamount

Your teacher takes you on a field trip to Virginia Beach.  When you are jumping the waves with your classmates you are palying on the __________________________.

• continental shelf
• continental slope

Thee deeper you go in the ocean light and temperature decrease while pressure ___________________-.

• increases
• decreases

A scuba diver can not go down too far in to the ocean becasue the amount of  ___________________ is too great.

• salinity
• pressure

The abyssal plain is  _____________ and covers half of the deep ocean floor.

• flat
• has mountains

The _____________________is conected to the continent and the continental slope, it is also covered with sediment.

• continental rise
• continental shelf

What causes surface currents?

• temperature differences
• wind

_____________ ocean currents are caused by differences in salitnity and temperature.

• deep
• surface

TRUE or FALSE
The ocean floor is always a flat bed of sand and is covered by the same amount of water everywhere.

• TRUE
• FALSE

TRUE or FALSE
The ocean coveres less area than land.

• TRUE
• FALSE