Oceanic Landforms, Part 1
The part of the continent located under the water.
What is the continental shelf?
Made up of low hills and flat plains on the ocean floor.
What is the ocean basin?
I am low land between hills or mountains.
What is a valley?
I am an ocean landform compared to low land between hills or mountains.
What is a rift?
Wide, flat areas of land.
What are plains and the abyssal plains?
Where the continental shelf drops down to the ocean floor.
What is the continental slope?
The deepest part of the ocean basin and deeper than any valley found on land.
What is a trench?
I am a deep valley with high, steep sides.
What is a canyon?
I am an ocean landform compared to a deep valley with high, steep sides.
What is a trench?
Lands which rise high above the ground.
What is a mountain range, and the mid-ocean ridge?
The mountain range that divides the ocean floor into two parts.
What is the mid-ocean ridge?
The flat area of the ocean basin.
What is the abyssal plain?
I am an opening in the surface from which lava flows.
What is a volcano?
I am an ocean landform with an opening from which lava flows.
What is a seamount or volcanic island?
Deep valleys with high, steep sides
What are canyons and trenches?
The narrow trench in the center of the highest part of the mid-ocean ridge.
What is the rift?
Under the ocean I am called a seamount.
What is an underwater volcano?
I am land which rises high above the ground.
What is a mountain range?
I am an ocean landform that is compared to land which rises high above the ground.
What is the mid-ocean ridge?
The place where underwater eruptions add mountains to the mid-ocean ridge.
Where is the rift zone?
The two categories of Earth's crust (or landforms)
What are the continental crust (landforms) and the oceanic crust (landforms)?
I am wide, flat areas of land.
What are plains?
The ocean landform that is compared to wide, flat areas of land.
What is the abyssal plain?