Question

Look at the figure and answer the following question.

1. What does the figure show?
2. In which part of the figure is the ocean shallow? Which human activities can be carried out here?
3. In which part does deposition of sediments occur?
4. Where in the figure do you find islands formed due to submerged mountains?
5. Label the figure with the correct names of landforms.
6. Compare these features with the landforms on the earth.

Answer 1

1. The figure shows various landforms of the ocean floor
2. The ocean is shallow at the continental shelf area. Fishing is carried out here as a major human activity.
3. Deposition of sediments occurs on the continental shelf area as well as on the abyssal plains.
4. Islands formed due to submerged mountains are found in the oceanic ridges and plateau region.
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6. On the earth, different types of mountains and ranges are found, as they are found on the seafloor in the form of seamounts and ridges, islands. Similarly, on the earth's surface plains are formed as abyssal plains, which are found on the seafloor. Valleys and canyons on the earth's surface represent oceanic deeps and trenches as a part of the ocean floor.