Oceanic Landforms, Part 1
Oceanic Landforms, Part 2
Cotinental Landforms
Oceanic landforms, Part 3
Comapring Continental and Oceanic Landforms
100
The part of the continent located under the water.
What is the continental shelf?
100
Made up of low hills and flat plains on the ocean floor.
What is the ocean basin?
100
I am low land between hills or mountains.
What is a valley?
100
I am an ocean landform compared to low land between hills or mountains.
What is a rift?
100
Wide, flat areas of land.
What are plains and the abyssal plains?
200
Where the continental shelf drops down to the ocean floor.
What is the continental slope?
200
The deepest part of the ocean basin and deeper than any valley found on land.
What is a trench?
200
I am a deep valley with high, steep sides.
What is a canyon?
200
I am an ocean landform compared to a deep valley with high, steep sides.
What is a trench?
200
Lands which rise high above the ground.
What is a mountain range, and the mid-ocean ridge?
300
The mountain range that divides the ocean floor into two parts.
What is the mid-ocean ridge?
300
The flat area of the ocean basin.
What is the abyssal plain?
300
I am an opening in the surface from which lava flows.
What is a volcano?
300
I am an ocean landform with an opening from which lava flows.
What is a seamount or volcanic island?
300
Deep valleys with high, steep sides
What are canyons and trenches?
400
The narrow trench in the center of the highest part of the mid-ocean ridge.
What is the rift?
400
Under the ocean I am called a seamount.
What is an underwater volcano?
400
I am land which rises high above the ground.
What is a mountain range?
400
I am an ocean landform that is compared to land which rises high above the ground.
What is the mid-ocean ridge?
400
Openings in the surface from which lava flows.
What are volcanoes and seamounts/volcanic islands?
500
The place where underwater eruptions add mountains to the mid-ocean ridge.
Where is the rift zone?
500
The two categories of Earth's crust (or landforms)
What are the continental crust (landforms) and the oceanic crust (landforms)?
500
I am wide, flat areas of land.
What are plains?
500
The ocean landform that is compared to wide, flat areas of land.
What is the abyssal plain?
500
Low lands between hills or mountains.
What are valleys and rifts?
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