Chapter 3.2 - The Ocean Floor

How do scientists explore the ocean from below the surface?

A steep, long depression in the deep-sea floor.

The gentle slope section between the continental slope and abyssal plain.

A bathymetric profile is a map of the ocean floor that shows the ______.

Sonar is a technology based on the 

What are the mountain ranges that form where tectonic plates pull apart?

What is a large, flat, almost level area of the deep-ocean basin?

The steep inclined section of the continental margin between the continental rise and shelf.

The section of the continental margin located between the shoreline and the continental slope?

What does Sonar stand for?

A long, narrow valley that forms as tectonic plates seperate

The ocean floor is divided into two regions, the continental margin and the 

What is the deep-ocean basin made of?

What is the continental margin made of?

What is a submerged mountain on the ocean floor?