Continental Margins and Ocean Basins
1. The continental margins are made up of three parts. What are they?
2. What is the continental shelf composed of? What is the slope of the shelf?
3. Where does the boundary of continental crust and oceanic crust occur?
4. What is the boundary between the continental shelf and continental slope?
5. What are the 2 origins of submarine canyons?
6. What is a turbidity current?
7. What is graded bedding and how does it form?
8. What are the 2 types of continental margins?
9. What are the characteristics of a passive continental margin?
10. What are the characteristics of an active continental margin?
11. Continental shelves have different widths, explain these differences with regards
to type of margin.
12. Where does the ocean basin begin?
13. What type of plate boundary is associated with deep ocean trenches?
14. What is the deepest trench? The longest?
15. What are 2 differences between ridges and rises?
16. What are seamounts?
17. How are guyots formed?
18. Describe how coral reefs form into atolls.