Ocean Basins
Across
- 2. flat-topped submerged seamount
- 4. V-shaped valley cut deep in continental shelf & slope
- 7. ooze made of calcium carbonate, never found below 5 km deep
- 11. study of ocean, movements, ocean floor, ocean water, and ocean life
- 13. part of continent with steeper slope, boundary between continental & oceanic crust
- 14. ooze made of silicon dioxide, found at any depth
- 16. uses sound and echoes to determine the location of objects under water
- 17. smaller than ocean partially or completely surrounded by land
- 18. very fine silt and clay sized particles of rock
- 20. form underwater mountain ranges, at divergent boundaries
- 21. part of continent located between shoreline and deep-ocean bottom
Down
- 1. covers nearly 75% of earth's surface
- 3. long, narrow depressions in deep-ocean basins, result of subduction
- 5. type of sediment that was produced by once living things
- 6. ocean floor under deep water, composed of oceanic crust and thin sediment
- 8. part of continent where a wedge of sediment is formed at base of continental slope
- 9. underwater research vessel
- 10. large, flat, almost level area of deep-ocean basin
- 12. cylindrical piece of sediment, rock, or soil that is collected by drilling
- 13. part of continent covered by water, slopes gently
- 15. volcanic mountains taller than 1 km
- 19. lump of minerals scattered on the ocean floor