Chapter 13: 13A & 13B

A longshore bar is associated with which ocean basin region?

• beach

• continental shelf

• abyssal plain

• mid-ocean ridge

A feature found in continental slopes that was likely carved by runoff water from the Flood is a(n) submarine canyon.

• submarine canyon

• ocean trench

• mid-ocean ridge

• abyssal plain

An underwater feature that forms at divergent tectonic plate boundaries is a(n) mid-ocean ridge (p. 311).

• mid-ocean ridge

• ocean trench

• seamount

• guyot

What is the correct name for a submerged volcano?

• seamount

• island arc

• mid-ocean ridge

• guyot

The Challenger Deep is associated with this type of feature.

• oceanic trench

• volcanic island

• coral reef

• mid-ocean ridge

Sea level is the same elevation everywhere on Earth.

• True

• False

(True or False) The only substance dissolved in seawater is salt.

• True

• False

changes with the seasons to form a thermal layer

• salinity

• temperature

• pressure

• speed of sound

is the measure of the ocean's saltiness

• salinity

• temperature

• pressure

• speed of sound

can reach up to 1100 atm in the Challenger Deep

• salinity

• temperature

• pressure

• speed of sound