Seafloor Geography

What is the deepest part of the oceans?

• Mid-ocean ridge

• Abyssal plain

• Deep-ocean trench

• Guyot

Which is the largest ocean?

• Pacific

• Atlantic

• Antarctic

• Indian

What is letter I?

• Cont. Shelf

• Mid-Ocean Ridge

• Volcanic Island

• Seamount

What is letter F?

• Mid-Ocean Ridge

• Seamount

• Trench

• Continental Shelf

What is letter H?

• Abyssal plain

• Seamount

• Continental slope

• Continental rise

What ocean floor feature is characterized by a thick sediment bed at the bottom of the continental slope?

• Trench

• Continental shelf

• Mid-ocean ridge

• Continental rise

What is letter C?

• Continental slope

• Seamount

• Mid-ocean ridge

• Submarine canyon

What percent of the Earth's surface is covered in water?

• 71
• 82
• 50
• 63

What is a gently sloping, shallow area of the ocean floor that extends outward from the edge of the continent?

• continental shelf
• continental rise
• continental slope
• seamount

What do you call a steep incline of the ocean floor leading down from the edge of the continental shelf?

• continental slope
• trench
• deep ocean basin
• continental rise