Quiz about Ocean Topography Review

Question 1

The large, flat part of the ocean floor is called the _____________.

Accepted Answer

abyssal plain

Answer

trench

Answer

continental shelf

Answer

continental slope

Question 2

What do you call an underwater mountain?

Accepted Answer

seamount

Answer

trench

Answer

abyssal plain

Answer

volcanic island

Question 3

A volcanic mountain that rises above the surface of the water is called ____________

Accepted Answer

island

Answer

trench

Answer

mid-ocean ridge

Answer

seamount

Question 4

What is a deep, underwater valley or canyon on the ocean floor?

Accepted Answer

trench

Answer

seamount

Answer

continental rise

Answer

continental slope

Question 5

The shallowest(least deep) part of the ocean is the ____________________

Accepted Answer

continental shelf

Answer

trench

Answer

abyssal plain

Answer

continental slope

Question 6

A trench is _______________

Accepted Answer

deep and cold

Answer

cold and shallow

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deep and warm

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warm and shallow

Question 7

If you are walking into the ocean you would be on the continental...

Accepted Answer

shelf

Answer

slope

Answer

rise

Question 8

A steep drop after the continental shelf is the continental...

Accepted Answer

slope

Answer

shelf

Answer

rise

Question 9

mountain ranges in the ocean

Accepted Answer

mid -ocean ridge

Answer

trenches

Answer

rift

Answer

ocean basin

Question 10

the deepest part of the ocean

Accepted Answer

trenches

Answer

abyssal plain

Answer

ocean basin

Answer

rift

Question 11

Throwback time! Which process adds more crust to the ocean floor? (Think plate tectonics!)

Accepted Answer

sea floor spreading

Answer

earthquakes

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subduction

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convection

Question 12

This boundary is also called a colliding boundary.

Accepted Answer

convergent

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transform

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divergent

Question 13

This boundary moves away from another boundary.

Accepted Answer

divergent

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convergent

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transform

Question 14

Alfred Wegener believed that all the continents were connected at one time.  What did he call this one large land mass?

Accepted Answer

Pangaea

Answer

Pancakes

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Pancreas

Answer

Patches

Question 15

What type of boundary do earthquakes usually occur along?

Accepted Answer

transform

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divergent

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convergent

Question 16

What is the difference between a volcanic island & a seamount?

Accepted Answer

A volcanic island rises above the water & a seamount does not

Answer

A seamount rises above the water & a volcanic island does not

Answer

Both the seamount & volcanic island are underwater

Answer

Both the seamount & the volcanic island rise above the water

Question 17

What letter symbolizes a continental slope

Accepted Answer

A

Answer

E

Answer

F

Answer

H

Question 18

What letter symbolizes a continental shelf?

Accepted Answer

F

Answer

A

Answer

C

Answer

G

Question 19

What letter symbolizes a mid-ocean ridge?

Accepted Answer

H

Answer

G

Answer

E

Answer

B

Question 20

What letter symbolizes a seamount?

Accepted Answer

B

Answer

E

Answer

G

Answer

D

Question 21

What letter symbolizes a rift valley?

Accepted Answer

D

Answer

G

Answer

A

Answer

F

Question 22

What letter symbolizes a volcanic island?

Accepted Answer

E

Answer

B

Answer

A

Answer

F

Question 23

What letter symbolizes an abyssal plain?

Accepted Answer

C

Answer

H

Answer

A

Answer

F

Question 24

What letter symbolizes a trench?

Accepted Answer

G

Answer

D

Answer

A

Answer

H

Question 25

What effects density of ocean water?

Accepted Answer

salinity and temperature

Answer

temperature and speed of a wave

Answer

salinity and size of a wave

Answer

size and speed of a wave

Question 26

Which ocean floor feature would take a sonar signal the longest time to

return?

Accepted Answer

Trench

Answer

Continental Shelf

Answer

Abyssal Plain

Answer

Mid-Ocean Ridge

Question 27

How much of the Earth is covered in water?

Accepted Answer

70-71%

Answer

97%

Answer

3%

Answer

2%

Question 28

What percentage of Earth's water is salt water?

Accepted Answer

97%

Answer

70-71%

Answer

3%

Answer

2%

Question 29

Approximately what percentage of Earth's water is available in rivers, lakes, underground, and in the atmosphere?

Accepted Answer

1%

Answer

70-71%

Answer

97%

Answer

3%

Question 30

Put the types of water in order from the greatest amount on Earth to the least amount on Earth.

Accepted Answer

oceans, glaciers, rivers

Answer

oceans, rivers, glaciers

Answer

glaciers, rivers, oceans

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rivers, glaciers, oceans

Question 31

What is salinity?

Accepted Answer

how much salt is dissolved in a liquid

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the amount of matter in a specific volume

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the degree of how hot or cold something is

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the landforms of the continent or the oceans

Question 32

Which number represents the Pacific Ocean?

Accepted Answer

2

Answer

7

Answer

4

Answer

9

Question 33

Which number represents the Atlantic Ocean?

Accepted Answer

4

Answer

7

Answer

2

Answer

9

Question 34

Which number represents the Arctic Ocean?

Accepted Answer

7

Answer

2

Answer

4

Answer

9

Question 35

Which number represents the Indian Ocean?

Accepted Answer

9

Answer

7

Answer

2

Answer

4

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