Ocean Features
Landforms
Ocean Features Vocabulary
Landforms Vocabulary
Miscellaneous
100
Found off the shoreline where the edges of the continent are under water.
What is the continental shelf?
100
Is found between hills or mountains.
What is a valley?
100
Wide , flat lands on the ocean floor.
What are abyssal plains?
100
They can create or destroy land and oceans.
What are constructive and destructive forces?
100
A sandy shoreline.
What is a beach?
200
A steep slope where the shelf drops down to the ocean floor.
What is the continental slope?
200
A steep sided valley.
What is a canyon?
200
Underwater volcanic mountains that are not found on the mid-ocean ridge.
What are seamounts?
200
A destructive process that describes the breaking down of rock.
What is weathering?
200
Water-cooled gaps between the mainland and the barrier island.
What is an inlet?
300
The mountain range on the ocean floor that splits the ocean into two.
What is the mid-ocean ridge?
300
Has an opening on the top from which lava comes out.
What is a volcanic mountain?
300
The repeated movement of water.
What are waves?
300
A destructive process that describes the movement of sediments and soil by wind, water, and gravity.
What is erosion?
300
Where a freshwater river meets the saltwater ocean.
What is an estuary?
400
The highest point of the mid-ocean ridge.
What is the rift zone?
400
A series of mountains.
What is a mountain range?
400
Flowing streams of water in a specific direction.
What are currents?
400
A constructive process that describes the dropping off and building up of moved sediments and soil in a new location.
What is deposition?
400
Islands with sandy beaches that serve as a protected to the mainland.
What is a barrier island?
500
Deep canyons on the ocean floor.
What is a trench?
500
Wide,flat areas of land.
What are plains?
500
The regular rise and fall of ocean waters due to the moon's gravity.
What are tides?
500
The area where the ocean meets the land.
What is the shoreline?
500
The parts of a wave.
What are crests , troughs , and breakers?
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