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Ocean Floor

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    Science Grade 5
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  • The scientists who study the ocean
    Astronmers
    Oceanographer
    Meteorologists
    Geologists
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  • Name 5 world oceans
    Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic, Southern
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  • What is a mid-ocean ridge?
    A deep crack in the ocean floor
    A flat area of the oce
    A shallow area near the coast
    A long chain of underwater mountains
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  • Is an ocean canyon that is steep-sided, very deep, dark, and cold. (35,000 ft deep.
    Ocean trench
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  • The use of sound wave to find the distance to the bottom
    Sonar
    Echolocation
    Radar
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  • is the flat, gently-sloping, shallow area that extends outward from the edge of a continent.
    Continental shelf
    Continetal Slope
    Continental Rise
    Continent
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  • Steeply slanted area between shelf and continental rise
    Trench
    Continental slope
    Abyssal plain
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  • Flat area underwater with sediment
    Abyssal plain
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  • When these seamounts rise above the water, they are called-------------.
    Islands
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  • The valley down the center of a mid-ocean ridge is called the
    Seamount
    Valley
    Rift Valley
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  • The-------------- is a flat smooth area of the ocean floor.
    Abyssal Plain
    Rift Valley
    Plain
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  • The ---------- is the lower portion of the continental slope where all the sediments have accumulated.
    plain
    continental rise
    continental shelf
    continental slope
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