Ocean Floor Parts

What is an underwater mountain formed by a volcano?

• trench
• rift zone
• seamount
• mid ocean ridge

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

What is an opening in the surface where lava may flow?

• trench
• seamount
• rift zone
• valley

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Sonar is the most accurate way used to map

• the ocean floor

• sea level

• the moons of Jupiter

• the Grand Canyon

Scientists use ______ to determine the oceans depth.

• Submarine
• Sonar
• Helicopter
• Light

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NGSS.MS-PS4-1

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

• continental shelf
• trench
• seamount
• abbysal plain

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3