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Seafloor features and Plate Tectonics Practice

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Use the vocabulary below to label the seafloor features diagram. Be sure to spell the name of the feature correctly. Each term will be used once.

Utilice el vocabulario a continuación para etiquetar el diagrama de características del lecho marino. Asegúrese de escribir correctamente el nombre de la función. Cada término se utilizará una vez.

Continental Shelf

Trench

Abyssal Plain

Continental Slope

Seamount

Mid-Ocean Ridge

Submarine Canyon

Guyot

Hydrothermal Vent

Volcanic Island

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Match the term to its description

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Ocean Basin

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The submerged outer edge of a continent; really just an extension of the continental crust, which is composed mostly of granite.

Guyot

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Deep sea floor beyond the continental margin; made up of oceanic crust, which is composed mostly of volcanic basalt.

Continental Margin

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Broad flat areas of sediment-covered ocean floor found between the continental margins and the mid-ocean ridges

Abyssal Plain

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Long but narrow topographic depressions of the sea floor. They are also the deepest parts of the ocean floor.

Trench

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A flat-topped seamount that was eroded flat by wave action or sank deeper in the seafloor.

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When two plate move towards each other and collide.

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When two plates move away from each other.

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When two plates slide past each other.

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At transform boundaries, fault lines are formed and there are a lot of earthquakes.

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Two continental crusts colliding results in volcanic mountains.

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A continental crust colliding with a oceanic crust causes which of the following to occur? Select all that apply.

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When two oceanic plates collide (come together), island arcs are formed.

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At a divergent boundary, underwater volcanic mountains are formed, creating new oceanic crust.

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At a continental divergent boundary, island arcs are formed.

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