Name_________________________

Quiz 2 (alternative)


Regurgitation (10 pts.-one for correct answer, one for spelling):

1. What is the name of the features that are carved into the continental shelf and serve as sediment "highways" to the deep seafloor?

2. Steep, explosive volcanoes are associated with what kind of Plate Tectonic boundary?

3. What is the name applied to the deepest parts of the ocean?

4. What is the term for the layer in the ocean water column through which no calicum carbonate minerals can exist? Also, what is its typical depth below sea level?

5. Which of the four main sediment types do "manganese nodules" belong?


Short Answer (10 pts.):

1. On the map below, name the Plate and name each of the borders. Also, say what type of plate boundary each of those borders is.

Plate_______________________________________________

Border A____________________________________________

Border B____________________________________________

Border C____________________________________________

 

 

 

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