Week 4 Bathymetry Post Reading Quiz

A  Continental slope

B  Hydrothermal vents

C  Continental rise

D  Continental shelf

A  hot spot volcanoes

B  trenches, arc volcanoes and shallow, intermediate and sometimes deep earthquakes

C  shallow, intermediate and sometimes deep earthquakes

D  arc volcanoes and hot spot volcanoes

A  They spill out onto the deep seafloor as abyssal fans

B  They are carved by turbidity currents, they spill out onto the deep seafloor as abyssal fans and they cut through sediments of the continental shelf, slope and rise

C  They begin at mid-ocean ridges and stretch out onto the abyssal plain

D  They cut through sediments of the continental shelf, slope and rise

A  submarine volcanism, erosion and thermal contraction

B  erosion

C  submarine volcanism

D  thermal contraction

E  movement along fracture zone

A  Oceanic ridge

B  Abyssal plain

C  Continental shelf

D  Deep-sea trench

A  Subduction

B  Erosion

C  Turbidity

D  Spreading

A  Sea level changes

B  Volcanoes

C  Turbidity currents

D  Subduction

A  Basin-type margins

B  Pacific-type margins

C  Atlantic-type margins

D  Converging-type margins

A  Continental crust is both less dense and thinner than oceanic crust.

B  Continental crust is less dense than oceanic crust.

C  Continental crust is denser than oceanic crust.

D  Continental crust is thinner than oceanic crust.

A  Granite-basalt transitions

B  Coastal deep-sea trenches

C  Abyssal plains

D  Coastlines