Ocean features

Question 1

What is a continental slope?

Answer 1

Narrow, about 16km, gives way to the continental rise

Question 2

What is continental shelf?

Answer 2

Gradually sloping part of the ocean, it ends at the continental slope

Question 3

What is the abyssal plain?

Answer 3

Flat ocean floor

Question 4

What are sea mounts?

Answer 4

Mountains that can clime over 3000meters above the abyssal plain

Question 5

What is mid ocean ridges?

Answer 5

Over the abyssal plain, very long chain of mountains

Question 6

What are guyots?

Answer 6

Seamounts that had once rose to the surface

Question 7

What are ocean trenches?

Answer 7

The deepest places in the ocean reaching more then 11,000meters deep

Question 8

What percentage of earths surface is ocean?

Answer 8

70.8%

Question 9

What is the photic zone?

Answer 9

sunlight can penetrate it