Bathymetry Lesson

The descending slope which connects the seafloor to the continental shelf.

• continental shelf

• trench

• guyot

• continental slope

An underwater mountain range that is an oceanic spreading center. Responsible for the creation of new ocean floor.

• trench

• mid-ocean ridge

• abyssal plain

• continental shelf

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Name feature A

• trench

• continental slope

• guyot

• mid-ocean ridge

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Name feature B

• guyot

• seamount

• abyssal plain

• volcanic island

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Flat or very gently sloping areas of the ocean floor.

• abyssal plain

• continental shelf

• trench

• continental floor

A mountain rising from the ocean floor that does not reach water's surface.

• volcanic island

• continental shelf

• seamount

• guyot

Name feature C

• guyot

• seamount

• abyssal plain

• continental shelf

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Long, narrow topographic depressions of the ocean floor.

• continental shelf

• volcanic island

• trench

• continental wedge

The extended part of each continent that is under water.

• trench

• guyot

• continental shelf

• volcanic island

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Seamounts that reach the surface of the ocean.

• guyot

• continental slope

• abyssal plain

• volcanic island