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Features of the Ocean Floor
Features of the Ocean Floor
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Sixth grade science
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The cliff part of the margin is called:
Shelf
Rise
Shoreline
Slope
2
The continental rise
A place for salt
Shoreline
A home for sharks
Marks the end of the continent
3
Where the water meets the land, is called:
Guyot
Tide
Coriolis effect
Shoreline
4
A trench can only be found
Shoreline
Ocean floor
In the continental margin
Guyot
5
A series of underwater mountain ranges, are called:
Mid-ocean ridges
Abyssal plains
Canyons
Trenches
6
Coral reefs form in ...
Shallow and tropical waters
Icy cold polar regions
On land near deserts
None of the above
7
Mid-ocean ridges, and rift valleys, are examples of:
A submarine canyon
Seamount
Trench
Sea floor spreading
8
Why does a hurricane, spin?
Shoreline
None of these choices
Coriolis Effect
El Nino
9
Where is life most abundant, in the ocean?
Guyots
Continental shelf
Continental Rise
Abyssal plains
10
During World War 2, restaurants offered ship builders, a new kind of sandwich
Hamburger
None of these choices
Stromboli
Submarine
11
A river in the ocean, is
A current
El Nino
None of the choices
The Coriolis Effect
12
Challenger Deep is a feature of
Trieste
Pangaea
Poseidon's trident
The Mariana Trench
13
The large flat area on the ocean floor, are called:
Pampas
Steppes
Abyssal plains
Fertile Cresent
14
A crack on the ocean floor, is called:
Guyot
Ridge
Trench
Canyon
15
The underwater part of a continent, is called:
Floor
Margin
None of these choices
Armstrong
16
The ocean floor falls into a trench, in order to. . .
Fill in the trench
make a seamount
be recycled
I don't know
17
An underwater mountain, is called:
Ridge
Plateau
Guyot
Seamount
18
The correct title for an ocean researcher, is:
Oceanologist
Oceanographer
19
The pushing of deep, cold ocean water onto coastal areas, is called:
None of the choices
El Nino
Mariana's Trench
The tide
20
A gouge in the continental margin, is called:
Trench
Valley
Canyon
Guyot
21
The suffix (-logy), means
None of the choices
Description of
Study of
Loggers unite
22
Scientists use sonar to
Measure surface currents
map the ocean floor
Look for fish
Sonar is not real
23
The ocean floor is primarily made, of:
Diamonds
Gold
Basalt
Granite
24
The continental shelf, is:
The end of the ocean floor
A cliff at the end of the margin
Not a thing
A slightly slanted flat table
25
An underwater, flat-topped mountain, is called:
Ridge
Seamount
Trench
Guyot