Investigating Oceanography 2nd Edition By Keith Sverdrup – Test Bank
Chapter 03 Test Bank – Static Key
1. The vertical relief across the mountains of the western United States is similar to the vertical relief across the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
TRUE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: 1. Remember
Chapter: 03 The Sea Floor and Its Sediments
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: Construct a simple cross-section of an ocean basin, including both passive and active continental margins.
Section: 03.02 Seafloor Provinces
Topic: Seafloor Provinces
2. Submarine canyons are features associated principally with the continental slope; some are associated with past or present rivers.
TRUE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: 1. Remember
Chapter: 03 The Sea Floor and Its Sediments
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: Construct a simple cross-section of an ocean basin, including both passive and active continental margins.
Section: 03.02 Seafloor Provinces
Topic: Seafloor Provinces
3. Abyssal hills are single, rounded domes extending at least 3km above the deep-sea floor.
FALSE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: 1. Remember
Chapter: 03 The Sea Floor and Its Sediments
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: Construct a simple cross-section of an ocean basin, including both passive and active continental margins.
Section: 03.02 Seafloor Provinces
Topic: Seafloor Provinces
4. The flat-topped seamounts called guyots found with their tops 1800m below the surface were flattened by erosion at the sea surface.
TRUE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: 1. Remember
Chapter: 03 The Sea Floor and Its Sediments
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: Construct a simple cross section of an ocean basin, including both passive and active continental margins.
Section: 03.02 Seafloor Provinces
Topic: Seafloor Provinces
5. Hydrogenous sediments of the deep-ocean floor predominate in regions where other sediment sources are reduced.
TRUE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: 1. Remember
Chapter: 03 The Sea Floor and Its Sediments
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: Identify where biogenous and lithogenous sediments are dominant on the sea floor.
Section: 03.03 Sediments
Topic: Sediments
6. Calcareous oozes of the open ocean are associated with midocean ridge and rise systems rather than the deep-ocean basin floor.
TRUE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: 1. Remember
Chapter: 03 The Sea Floor and Its Sediments
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: Identify where biogenous and lithogenous sediments are dominant on the sea floor.
Section: 03.03 Sediments
Topic: Sediments
7. Siliceous oozes are found at all ocean depths because of the slow dissolving rate of silica.
FALSE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: 1. Remember
Chapter: 03 The Sea Floor and Its Sediments
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: Identify where biogenous and lithogenous sediments are dominant on the sea floor.
Section: 03.03 Sediments
Topic: Sediments
8. Calcareous deposits are most likely to be found in more acidic seawater undersaturated in calcite.
FALSE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: 1. Remember
Chapter: 03 The Sea Floor and Its Sediments
Gradable: automatic
Learning Outcome: Identify where biogenous and lithogenous sediments are dominant on the sea floor.
Section: 03.03 Sediments
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