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