Multiple Choice
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What feature is letter
C?
a. | a guyot | c. | continental shelf | b. | continental
slope | d. | abyssal plain |
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What is a guyot?
a. | a mountain under the sea | c. | the edge of the rift valley | b. | a flat topped sea mount flattened by the waves | d. | a volcanic
island |
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What ocean floor feature is letter
C?
a. | a seamount | c. | an
island | b. | mid-ocean ridge | d. | a
guyot |
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The section of a continent that lies just off the
shoreline and extends beneath the ocean is called the continental
a. | shelf. | c. | basin. | b. | plain. | d. | ridge. |
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 What is usually the deepest
part of the ocean and is formed by convergent ocean plates at a subduction zone?
a. | the rift valley | c. | continental slope | b. | deep sea
trench | d. | the abyssal plain |
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Use this picture and your knowledge to answer this
question.
 What feature is letter F?
a. | seamount | c. | Abyssal plain | b. | rift
valley | d. | mid-ocean ridge |
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The flattest place on Earth is
a. | the continental shelf | c. | the Sahara Desert | b. | the Abyssal
Plain | d. | in Oklahoma on the Great Plains |
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 Letter J is what feature of
the ocean?
a. | submarine canyon | c. | abyssal plain | b. | continental
shelf | d. | continental slope |
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Which is the correct sequence of seafloor features
as you move from the shoreline outward?
a. | continental slope - continental shelf - abyssal
plain | b. | continental slope - abyssal plain - mid-ocean
ridge | c. | continental shelf - continental slope - abyssal
plain | d. | continental shelf - continental slope - mid-ocean
ridge |
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10.
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How have oceanographers been able to map the sea
floor?
a. | by sending out scuba divers | c. | by using echo sounding | b. | by studying
seismic waves | d. | by using submarines |
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