Week 4 Bathymetry Post-reading Quiz

A  Hydrothermal vents

B  Continental shelf

C  Continental slope

D  Continental rise

A  hot spot volcanoes, arc volcanoes, shallow, intermediate and sometimes deep earthquakes

B  trenches, arc volcanoes, hot spot volcanoes

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

D  trenches, hot spot volcanoes, shallow, intermediate and sometimes deep earthquakes

A  They cut through sediments of the continental shelf, slope and rise.
They begin at mid-ocean ridges and stretch out onto the abyssal plain
They spill out onto the deep seafloor as abyssal fans.

B  They cut through sediments of the continental shelf, slope and rise.
They begin at mid-ocean ridges and stretch out onto the abyssal plain.
They are carved by turbidity currents.

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

D  They begin at mid-ocean ridges and stretch out onto the abyssal plain.
They are carved by turbidity currents.
They spill out onto the deep seafloor as abyssal fans.

A  submarine volcanism, erosion, thermal contraction

B  submarine volcanism, erosion, movement along fracture zone

C  movement along fracture zone, erosion, thermal contraction

D  submarine volcanism, movement along fracture zone, thermal contraction

A  Deep-sea trench

B  Oceanic ridge

C  Abyssal plain

D  Continental shelf

A  Erosion

B  Turbidity

C  Spreading

D  Subduction

A  Turbidity currents

B  Volcanoes

C  Subduction

D  Sea level changes

A  Converging-type margins

B  Pacific-type margins

C  Basin-type margins

D  Atlantic-type margins

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

A  Coastlines

B  Abyssal plains

C  Coastal deep-sea trenches

D  Granite-basalt transitions