Matching Pairs Ocean Floor Matching Online version Students will match vocab with their terms by Bethaney Barber 1 Made of continental crust- Shallower than the deep-ocean basin 2 Huge cracks in the deep-ocean basin 3 The base of the continental slope, is made of large piles of sediment 4 Begins at the edge of the shelf and continues down to the flattest part of the ocean floor 5 Sound Navigation and ranging Scientists send sound pulses from a ship to the bottom of the ocean floor The sound moves through the water, bounces off ocean floor and returns to ship 6 is the Study of the shape and features of Land surfaces 7 Individual mountains of volcanic material 8 Made of oceanic Crust- deeper than the continental margin 9 Begins at shoreline and slopes gently down 10 Mountain chains that form when tectonic plates pull apart. Creates cracks in the ocean floor called RIFT ZONES Topography Continental margin Sonar Ocean Trench Continental rise Deep-ocean basin Continental Shelf Seamount Mid-ocean ridge Continental slope
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