Seafloor Features

Seamount is similiar to...

• a volcanic island
• a small mountain or volcano
• The Great Plains
• The Grand Canyon

The continental slope is located at the end of the...

• shoreline
• continental shelf
• mid ocean ridge
• abyssal plain

Which process adds more crust to the ocean floor?

• earthquakes
• sea floor spreading 
• subduction
• convection

Which best represents the order of seafloor features as you move from the shoreline to the deep ocean?

•  Continental slope – continental shelf- continental rise – mid-ocean ridge
•  Continental rise – continental shelf – mid-ocean ridge -  continental slope
•  Continental shelf – continental slope – continental rise – mid-ocean ridge
•    Mid-ocean ridge – continental rise – continental shelf- continental slope

What type of boundary does Seafloor Spreading occur?

• Convergent

• Subduction

• Collision

• Divergent

True or False: The plates will never stop moving

• True
• False

Two plates come together or collide at what boundary?

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Transform

Two plates slide past each other at what boundary?

• Covergent

• Divergent

• Transform

Oceanic crust (sea floor) is destroyed at this boundary.

• Convergent Oceanic

• Divergent Oceanic

• Convergent Continental-Continental

• Divergent Continental

The __________ is the deepest known place on Earth at a depth of 11,034 meters.

• Volcano Gully

• Seamount Deep

• Ridge Valley

• Mariana Trench