Ocean Floor Features and Exploration

Use the diagram to pick 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 – abyssal plain– mid-ocean ridge

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

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The Marianas __________ is the deepest known place on Earth

• Volcanoe

• Seamount

• Ridge

• Trench

What is letter D?

• Continental shelf

• Abyssal plain

• Volcanic Island

• Seamount

What is letter E?

• Volcanic Island

• Seamount

• Mid-Ocean Ridge

• Abyssal Plain

What is letter K?

• Mid-Ocean Ridge

• Rift

• Trench

• Cont. Shelf

The gradually sloping part of a continent that extends under the ocean is the...

• continental slope

• continental shelf

• abyssal plain

• trench

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Seamount is similiar to...

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

Rift is similiar to ...

• A hole
• A divide
• A valley
• A trench

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

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

The place where new ocean floor forms is called the...

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

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3