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Ocean Regions: Ocean Floor - Quick Quiz
1. The continental rise is a large, gentle slope at the base of the continental slope.
True
 False
2. The ocean floor is one big flat, featureless plain.
True
 False
3. What are the deepest parts of the ocean called?
Deep-sea trenches
 Abyssal plains
 Continents
 Seamounts
4. What is the term for the continental shelf plus the continental slope?
Coast
 Continental margin
 Continental rise
 Omaha
5. What is a guyot?
A scientist who studies the ocean floor
 Deep-sea trench
 A fancy seagull
 A seamount whose peak has been eroded and become a flat surface
 

Answers (for non JavaScript enable browsers):

1. True

2. False. The ocean floor has mountains, plains, valleys, ridges, volcanoes and just about any other feature we see on land.

3. Deep-sea trenches. A Navy-owned submarine, the Trieste, still holds the record for deepest dive after journeying to the bottom of one deep-sea trench, the Marianas Trench, on January 23, 1960. The Trieste dove 35, 800 feet into a trench within the Mariannas Trench called Challenger Deep.

4. Continental margin

5. A seamount whose peak has been eroded and become a flat surface.
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