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