Ocean Floor Exploration

What is letter A pointing to?

• Continental Slope

• Seamount

• Abyssal Plain

• Mid-Ocean Ridge

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What is letter B pointing to?

• Seamount

• Abyssal Plain

• Mid-Ocean Ridge

• Island

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What is letter C pointing to?

• Abyssal Plain

• Mid-Ocean Ridge

• Island

• Continental Shelf

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What is letter D pointing to?

• Mid-Ocean Ridge

• Island

• Continental Shelf

• Trench

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What is letter E pointing to?

• Island

• Continental Shelf

• Trench

• Continental Slope

What is F pointing to?

• Continental Shelf

• Trench

• Continental Slope

• Seamount

What is letter G pointing to?

• Trench

• Continental Slope

• Seamount

• Abyssal Plain

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Where does new oceanic crust form?

• along a mid-ocean ridge at a rift zone

• in an ocean trench

• on the continental shelf

• on a seamount

What is the correct order of the oceanic landforms, from closest to a continent to farthest away?

• ocean basin→mid-ocean ridge→ continental shelf→ continental slope

• mid-ocean ridge→ ocean basin→ continental slope→ continental shelf

• continental shelf→ continental slope →ocean basin→ mid-ocean ridge

• continental slope→ continental shelf→ mid-ocean ridge→ ocean basin

Which continental landform is the most like a trench found on the ocean floor?

• valley

• mountain

• canyon

• plain