L2: Exploring the Ocean Floor

Name the steep part of the ocean floor that can drop down 2 miles to the continental rise.

When you are playing on the beach, what part of the ocean floor are you standing on?

Where would you likely find the remains of a whale when it dies?

Where the water and the land meet, is called the ____________________.

How many continents are there?

Where is life most abundant, in the ocean?

Which part of the ocean floor contains trenches, underwater volcanoes and seamounts?

Scientists use sonar to _________________________.

Underwater volcanic mountains with flat tops are called __________________.

Underwater, cone-shaped volcanic mountains found in the abyssal plains are called ____________.

Which landforms might you find on the ocean floor?

How many oceans are there in the world?

The deep, flat part of the ocean floor is called the _____________________________.

An underwater mountain chain rising from the ocean basin, where seafloor is spreading is the 

The flat part of the continent that is covered by seawater is the _________________.

The ocean floor is difficult to study for many reasons. Which reason does not belong?

A trench can only be found on the ______________________.

Which part of the ocean floor is flat and covered with sand?

What is the deepest part of the world's oceans?

The sloping surface between the outer edge of the continental shelf and the ocean basin is the

Deep, steep cuts in the abyssal plain are called _________________.

What is found at the end of the continental rise, which is more than 4,000 meters deep?

The study of the shape and features of the surface of the Earth and other areas is called ____.

Deep, V-shaped valleys found along the continental slope are called _______________.