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 Made of oceanic Crust- deeper than the continental margin 3 Individual mountains of volcanic material 4 Made of continental crust- Shallower than the deep-ocean basin 5 The base of the continental slope, is made of large piles of sediment 6 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 7 Begins at shoreline and slopes gently down 8 is the Study of the shape and features of Land surfaces 9 Huge cracks in the deep-ocean basin 10 Begins at the edge of the shelf and continues down to the flattest part of the ocean floor Ocean Trench Continental margin Continental Shelf Sonar Topography Continental rise Deep-ocean basin Continental slope Seamount Mid-ocean ridge