Relacionar Columnas Ocean Floor Matching Versión en línea Students will match vocab with their terms por Bethaney Barber 1 Made of oceanic Crust- deeper than the continental margin 2 Begins at shoreline and slopes gently down 3 Begins at the edge of the shelf and continues down to the flattest part of the ocean floor 4 Made of continental crust- Shallower than the deep-ocean basin 5 is the Study of the shape and features of Land surfaces 6 Huge cracks in the deep-ocean basin 7 The base of the continental slope, is made of large piles of sediment 8 Mountain chains that form when tectonic plates pull apart. Creates cracks in the ocean floor called RIFT ZONES 9 Individual mountains of volcanic material 10 Sound Navigation and ranging Scientists send sound pulses from a ship to the bottom of the ocean floor The sound moves through the water, bounces off ocean floor and returns to ship Mid-ocean ridge Continental Shelf Topography Continental slope Ocean Trench Seamount Continental rise Sonar Deep-ocean basin Continental margin