Relier Pairs Ocean Floor Matching Version en ligne Students will match vocab with their terms par Bethaney Barber 1 is the Study of the shape and features of Land surfaces 2 Made of oceanic Crust- deeper than the continental margin 3 Begins at shoreline and slopes gently down 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 Individual mountains of volcanic material 8 Huge cracks in the deep-ocean basin 9 Mountain chains that form when tectonic plates pull apart. Creates cracks in the ocean floor called RIFT ZONES 10 Begins at the edge of the shelf and continues down to the flattest part of the ocean floor Continental slope Continental rise Mid-ocean ridge Ocean Trench Deep-ocean basin Continental margin Sonar Topography Seamount Continental Shelf