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