Continental Features and Hydrothermal Vents

What is the continental shelf?

• abyssal plain

• Flat topped underwater mountains

• Shallow underwater ledge found at the edge of a continent

• Trench

What is Continental slope??

• A deep slope between a continental shelf and sea floor

• Separates continental slope from the ocean bottom

• Seamount

• A trench

What is Continental rise

• A large flat thingy

• separates the slope from the ocean bottom

• Flat topped mountain

• Guyot

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

What is the Hydrothermal Vent

• A vent air comes through because people need to breathe

• A valley through the ocean that moves air

• A large flat area

• An opening on the ocean floor where mineral rich water escapes

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What is the Abyssal Plain

• A large flat area on the ocean floor

• Underwater mountain

• Flat topped ridge

• AN opening in the ocean floor

Opening in the oceanic crust where magma escapes and makes new crust, can be a mile deeper than the surrounding ridge.

• Rift-Valley

• Seamount

• Guyot

• Trench

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

A wide ocean mountain range with steep valleys at the center found in the Atlantic Ocean

• trench

• Continental slope

• Mid-Ocean ridge

• Rift valley

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Narrow channels more than 2 miles deep found along the margins of continents.

• Continental rise

• Trench

• abyssal plain

• seamount

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Underwater mountains that number in thousands and formed volcanos

• guyot

• seamount

• trench

• Seamount

Flat topped underwater mountains

• Guyot

• seamount

• rift valley

• trench

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3