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Ocean Landforms Vocabulary Quiz
| Questions |
Answers |
| large, flat area of the ocean floor |
abyssal plain |
| long, v-shaped canyon on ocean floor |
trench |
| an underwater mountain range |
mid-ocean ridge |
| deepest part of the ocean floor, made of hills and flat plains |
ocean basin |
| part of a continent that slopes gently away from the shoreline |
continental shelf |
| an area between 2 faults/cracks in Earth's crust where the land seperates forming a valley along the mid-ocean ridge |
rift zone |
| steep ending of a continent between the continental shelf and the deep ocean floor |
continental slope |