Ocean Floor

What is the steep slope at the edge of the continental shelf?

• seamount
• mid-ocean ridge
• continental slope
• rift zone

What are underwater mountain ranges called?

• continental shelf
• mid-ocean ridges
• abyssal plains
• continental slopes

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Where is the shallowest part of the ocean floor?

• continental slope
• continental shelf
• abyssal plains
• rift zones

What is the flat land located on either side of the mid-ocean ridge?

• continental slope
• continental shelf
• abyssal plain
• ocean basin

What is the deepest part of the ocean basin?

• abyssal plains
• trenches
• rift zones
• mid-ocean ridge

The _________ is the gradually sloping end of a continent that extends under the ocean to 350 m deep.

• continental shelf
• trench
• seamount
• abbysal plain

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Which structure extends from the outer edge of the continental shelf to the ocean floor?

• continental slope
• abyssal plain
• oceanic trench
• sea mount

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Label A

• continental slope
• continental shelf
• abyssal plain
• sea mount

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Label B

• continental slope
• continental shelf
• abyssal plain
• sea mount

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NGSS.4-ESS2-2

Label C

• continental slope
• continental shelf
• abyssal plain
• sea mount

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3