Can you name the Vocab from Ch 13?

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An acronym for sound navigation and ranging.
The extended perimeter of each continent and associated coastal plain.
Underwater plain on the deep sea floor.
A chain of volcanoes positioned in an arc shape.
A long but narrow topographic depression of the sea floor.
The underwater part of the continental crust.
A crystalline solids that consist of a gas molecule.
An underwater feature found between the continental slope and the abyssal plain.
Sediment derived from the dissolved material in water.
A general term for an underwater mountain system that consists of various mountain ranges.
A cross-sectional view of the crust made by measuring the reflection of artificial seismic waves off boundaries between different layers of rock in the crust.
Sediment composed of biological materials.
A large, relatively flat submarine region.
The technique of using sound pulses directed from the surface or from a submarine vertically down to measure the distance to the bottom by means of sound waves.
DefinitionVocab Word
General term for an underwater mountain system that consists of various mountain ranges.
The transition between oceanic and continental crust.
A depression of the sea floor more or less equidimensional in form and of variable.
Located along the crest of the mid-ocean ridge system and is the result of sea floor spreading.
The study of underwater depth of lake or ocean floors.
A mountain rising from the ocean seafloor that does not reach to the water's surface.
A steep-sided valley on the sea floor of the continental slope.
Scientific study of the ocean and its phenomena.
An isolated underwater volcanic mountain.
It is the location of plate boundaries and are characterized by frequent earthquakes and abundant volcanism.
Sediments of those derived from the erosion of rocks on land.
A current of rapidly moving, sediment-laden water moving down a slope through water, or another fluid.
The zone of the ocean floor that separates the thin oceanic crust from thick continental crust.
A type of archipelago composed of a chain of volcanoes.
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Honors Earth Space 2011 Brandon Albright Ch 13 Quiz

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