The Ocean Basins

Question 1

What are the 5 oceans called?

Answer 1

1. Pacific Ocean
2. Atlantic Ocean
3. Southern Ocean
4. Indian Ocean
5. Arctic Ocean

Question 2

What is a system that uses acoustic signals and returned echoes to determine the location of objects or to communicate?

Answer 2

Sonar

Question 3

What does SONAR stand for?

Answer 3

Sound, Navigation, and Ranging

Question 4

What are also known as submarines?

Answer 4

Submersibles

Question 5

What submersibles are piloted by people?

Answer 5

Bathysphere & Bathyscaph

Question 6

What is he shallow sea floor that is located between the shoreline and the deep-ocean bottom called?

Answer 6

Continental Margin

Question 7

What is a zone of shallow water that surrounds the edges of a continent?

Answer 7

Continental Shelf

Question 8

What is the steep slope at the edge of the continental shelf called?

Answer 8

Continental Slope

Question 9

What is the wedge-shape area at the base of the slope called?

Answer 9

Continental Rise

Question 10

What is the part of the ocean floor that is under deep water beyond the continental margin and that is composed of oceanic crust called?

Answer 10

Deep-Ocean Basin

Question 11

What is a long, narrow, and steep depression that forms on the ocean floor?

Answer 11

Trench

Question 12

What is a large, flat, almost level area of the deep-ocean basin called?

Answer 12

Abyssal Plain

Question 13

What are submerged volcanic mountains taller than 1 km called?

Answer 13

Seamounts