Marine Biology (Castro), 9th Edition

Chapter 2: The Sea Floor

Chapter Quiz

1
About what percentage of the Earth's surface is covered by ocean?
A)50%
B)71%
C)85%
D)25%
2
Which of the following oceans is the smallest and shallowest?
A)The Pacific
B)The Arctic
C)The Atlantic
D)The Indian
3
Which is not true of the Pacific?
A)Its area is equal to that of the Indian Ocean.
B)It contains the deepest trench.
C)It is geologically the newest ocean.
D)It contains island arcs.
4
Alfred Wegener proposed which of these ideas?
A)All continents once were joined into one supercontinent.
B)Magnetic anomalies show that the sea floor did not form all at once.
C)The oceanic lithosphere is created by sea-floor spreading.
D)Sea levels dropped during the Ice Ages
5
Continental plates are believed to move because of which of these causes?
A)New volcanic rock pushes them away from spreading centers.
B)Cooling lithosphere becomes dense, sinks, and pulls a plate with it which produces "slab pull".
C)Plates crack along fault lines.
D)The mantle is fluid and carries plates along with it
6
What is the estimated pressure and temperature at the core?
A)1,000 times surface pressure, 10,000°C
B)10,000 times surface pressure, 8,000°C
C)100,000 surface pressure, 6,000°C
D)1,000,000 surface pressure, 4,000°C
7
Which of the following is believed to cause the Earth's magnetic field?
A)Sea floor spreading
B)Movement of the crust
C)Currents carrying iron from the core to the crust
D)Movement of the outer core
8
The bands of magnetic rock that run parallel to the mid-ocean ridge system which reverse polarity and are thus called magnetic anomalies are evidence for which of these occurances?
A)Bacteria lived in the ocean floor millions of years ago
B)Volcanoes form new rock at the ocean ridges.
C)The sea floor came from the outer core
D)Granite is denser than basalt
9
Where should you look to find the oldest rocks in the ocean?
A)At hydrothermal vents
B)Near trenches
C)On top of mid-ocean ridges
D)Near volcanoes
10
If you drop a camera at random to the deep-sea floor, which of these are you most likely to see?
A)Steep ridges
B)Deep trenches
C)Canyons
D)Lots of sediments
11
Which of the following sediments are biogenous sediments formed mostly from shells of microscopic organisms.
A)Siliceous ooze
B)Loess deposits
C)Manganese nodules
D)Red clay
12
The biologically richest part of the seafloor is:
A)The continental shelf.
B)The continental slope.
C)The trenches.
D)The continental rise.
E)The abyssal plain.
13
Sea levels were higher during the Ice Ages than during the current Inter-Glacial period.
A)True
B)False
14
The Himalaya Mountains formed from which type of collision?
A)oceanic-oceanic
B)continent-continent
C)continental-oceanic
15
The San Andreas Fault is an example of which of the following?
A)An oceanic-oceanic plate collision.
B)An island-arc formation
C)A continent-continent collision.
D)A shear boundary.
16
The ancient ocean called Panthalassa is the ancestor of which ocean?
A)Atlantic
B)Pacific
C)Indian
D)Arctic
17
Which is true of the Tethys Sea?
A)It gave rise to the Arctic Ocean.
B)It formed between North and South America.
C)Today, it is located on the eastern coast of Asia.
D)It was home to may shallow-water organisms and was the precursor to today's Mediterranean Sea.
18
Which is a characteristic of seas?
A)They always are cut off from the main ocean basins.
B)They can contain the greatest average depths.
C)They form a continuous body of water around Antarctica.
D)They are shallower than the oceans.
19
The rich sulfide mineral deposits that build up around hydrothermal vents are called:
A)Active Margins
B)Black Smokers
C)Passive Margins
D)Abyssal Hills
20
The Aleutian Islands formed from the collision of two seafloor plates.
A)True
B)False
21
To perform carbon dating on marine sediments, one generally needs which of these to be present in the sediment?
A)Microfossils
B)Red Clay
C)Sulfide compounds
D)Radioisotopes
22
Which of these features is not used as evidence of continental drift?
A)Similar rock formations on either side of oceans
B)Similar fossils on either side of oceans
C)Signs of rising sea levels
D)Bands of magnetic anomalies along mid-ocean ridges.
Glencoe Online Learning CenterScience HomeProduct InfoSite MapContact Us

The McGraw-Hill CompaniesGlencoe