Marine Science

Organization

Chapter 2
The Sea Floor

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Study Guide

Chapter 2 Vocabulary

Chapter 2 Notebook Assignments

habitat
density

Each of these assignments will be added to the Comp NB

and checked at the end of the unit.

core
mantle
crust

Points Possible

Assignment

basalt

10

Textbook Scavenger Hunt

10

Vocabulary

10

Plate Tectonics Worksheet

15

Continental Drift Lab Report

15

Review Sheet

60

TOTAL:

granite
continental drift
Pangaea
plate tectonics
mid-ocean ridge
fault
trenches
rifts
sea-floor spreading
lithosphere
asthenosphere
subduction
island arc
convection
Panthalassa
Laurasia
Gondwana

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Section 2.3: Geological Provinces of the Ocean

lithogenous sediment
red clay

1.

What are the two main regions of the sea floor?

2.

Make a chart comparing the continental shelf, continental slop, con-

calcium carbonate

tinental rise, active margins, and passive margins.

calcareous ooze

biogenous sediment

interglacial period

3.

How deep is a deep ocean basin?

4.

Define abyssal plain, seamount, guyots, and trench.

continental margin

5.

What is the deepest point in the ocean?

continental shelf

6.

What is the temperature of hydrothermal vents?

7.

What sorts of organisms live there?

ice age

continental slope
continental rise
submarine canyon
shelf break
deep sea fan
active margin
passive margin
abyssal plain
seamount
guyot
central rift valley
hydrothermal vent
sulfide
black smoker

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Section 2.1: The Water Planet

Section 2.2: The Origin & Structure of the Ocean Basins

1.

The oceans cover what percentage of the planet?

2.

Name the 4 oceans and rank them from largest to smallest.

3.

Name the 3 ocean basins.

2.

Who gave the theory of Continental Drift in 1912? What was it?

4.

Explain the order of how the structure of the Earth formed.

3.

What is The Theory of Plate Tectonics?

5.

What is the core of the Earth made of?

4.

What is the largest geological feature on Earth?

6.

List and describe the main layers of the geosphere (physical

5.

How was the mid-ocean ridge discovered?

Earth).

6.

What is the significance of the mid-ocean ridge?

Describe the composition, characteristics, and age of the

7.

Explain the process of the creation of the sea floor.

ocean crust.

8.

What allows the tectonic plates to move?

Describe the composition, characteristics, and age of the con-

9.

How much do the plates move annually?

tinental crust.

10. Explain what occurs when oceanic/continental, oceanic/oceanic, and

7.

8.

1.

Who first discovered that the continental coasts of the Atlantic fit
together? How long ago was this determined?

continental/continental plates collide (3 scenarios).

11. How old in Pangaea?
12. What is the difference in lithogenous and biogenous sediments?
13. Why do sea levels fall during ice ages and rise during interglacial
periods?

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