Ch. 9 Science Quiz

What is a guyot?

• A long underwater mountain chain

• Active volcano

• A single underwater volcano

• Extinct volcano with a little flat top

What is a deep canyon?

• Ocean Trench

• Echolocation

• Submersible

• Continental Shelf

Which is underwater chains that mark the bounties where tectonic plates are spreading apart

• Mid ocean ridge

• Ocean trench

• echolocation

• Continental shelf

What are the vents called that spray out minerals in form of hot soot ??

• Cold seeps

• Hydrothermal Vents

• Midnight Zone

• Pufferfish

Why we can't go under to the ocean floor that is 5000 meter down

• pressure

• Scary fish

• No air

• dark

What do the small submarines that the scientists develop to explore the ocean called?

• Small Sub

• SS

• subversiboles

• submersibles

What is a swell?

• A rolling wave

• GIANT WAVES

• A place in the ocean that has more water

• A movement of tectonic plates

What is NOT a part of Ocean Waves?

• wavelength

• crest

• trough

• coastal

All waves are caused by wind

• True

• False

What is a tsunami?

• Series of small waves made by floods.

• Smaller than breaker waves.

• Series of giant waves triggered by an underwater earthquake

• A pool made for kids.