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