ocean floor
Terms
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- continent
- major landmass
- submarine cayon
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u or v shaped valley cut into a
continental shelf or slope - continental slope
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steepest part of the continental
marginal - seamounts
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free standing mountains formed
by volcanoes - guyot
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seamounts that have been
eroded away - abyssal plain
- bottom of the ocean
- trench
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place where the ocean is forced
beneth itself - midocean ridge
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colossal chain of underwater
mountains located between
2 seperated plates - volcanic islands
- formed by a volcano
- rift valley
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a valley formed between mid
atlantic ridge - continental shelf
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begins at the shoreline
and gentle slopes towards the
oceans