6th Grade: Ocean Floor and More

The Mid Ocean Ridge was created by plate movement. The process that created it is called __.

Oceans cover about this much of Earth.

A beach is the highest part of this feature? Continental ____________

Process that carries sediments to a different location

Benthic life refers to the __ and ___ that live on the ocean floor.

These can cause mid-ocean ridges

The deep ocean basin covers about ___% of Earth's surface.

The largest ocean

Flat, deep ocean floor

These cause seamounts.

Letter I is the flattest place on Earth. What is it called?

Letter C is showing you underwater pointed mountains. What are they called?

As of today, how many oceans are there?

The deepest place on Earth that scientists know of is ___.

Rock that is molten and then cools.

Underwater mountains caused by volcanoes.

Two chains of mountains that form from plates drifting apart

Letter A is a submarine canyon. This canyon is a V-shaped canyon cut into the Continental _&_.

Part of the c. crust created by sediments drifting from c. shelf & c. slope due to deposition

Letter F is pointing out which part of the ocean? (Where you play when you go to the beach.)

A volcano that extends out of the ocean is called a

a VERY LARGE body of salt water

The newest named ocean is the _____ ocean.

Letter G is showing you an ocean floor feature that has been flattened due to water. It is a

Letter E is showing you an active underwater ____.

The ocean features were created through the movement of lithospheric plates on the Earth's __.

Letter D is an underwater mountain range. What is it called?

The deepest part of the oceans are called

The name of the crust that is under large bodies of water

Flat topped sea mounts are called ____.

Which ocean has the Mariana Trench and Mid-Ocean Ridge?

Connects the continental shelf and the oceanic crust.

Sand, mud, and rocks are called ____. This is formed by weathering and erosion