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1) What is topography of the 1) What is topography of the ocean?ocean?
The surface features of the ocean floor.
2) What is the Continental 2) What is the Continental Shelf?Shelf?
Slopes gently down from the edge of a continent.
Continental Shelf Continental
Shelf
3) What is the Continental Slope?
Slopes steeply from the continental shelf
Continental slope
Continental Shelf Continental
Shelf
Continental Slope
4) What is the Continental Rise?
The base of the continental slope - made of large piles of sediment.
Continental Shelf Continental
Shelf
Continental Slope
Continental Rise
5) What is a Submarine Canyon?
Steep V shaped canyon that cuts through the continental shelf and continental slope
Continental Shelf Continental
Shelf
Continental Slope
Continental Rise
Submarine Canyon
6) What is an Abyssal Plain?
Flat ocean bottom covered with mud and the remains of marine organisms
Continental Shelf Continental
Shelf
Continental Slope
Continental Rise
Submarine Canyon Abyssal
Plain
7) What is a Seamount?
Steep-walled, pointy, extinct volcano
The seamount’s shown here can reach up to just under 600 ft. of the surface. They are located off the coast of Alaska.
Continental Shelf Continental
Shelf
Continental Slope
Continental Rise
Submarine Canyon Abyssal
Plain
Seamount
8) What is a Guyot?
Flat topped seamount - flattened by the action of waves
Continental Shelf Continental
Shelf
Continental Slope
Continental Rise
Submarine Canyon Abyssal
Plain
Seamount
Guyot
9) What is the Mid-Ocean Ridge?
Longest undersea mountain range
Occurs at divergent boundaries
Continental Shelf Continental
Shelf
Continental Slope
Continental Rise
Submarine Canyon Abyssal
Plain
Seamount
Guyot Mid-Ocean Ridge
Oceanic RidgesOceanic Ridges
10) What is a Rift Valley?
Deep valley that forms between the mountains of a mid-ocean ridge
Continental Shelf Continental
Shelf
Continental Slope
Continental Rise
Submarine Canyon Abyssal
Plain
Seamount
Guyot Mid-Ocean Ridge
Rift Valley
11) What is a Trench? Steep sided narrow cut in the sea
floor Deepest part of the ocean
(Mariana Trench) Formed from convergent plate
boundaries
Continental Shelf Continental
Shelf
Continental Slope
Continental Rise
Submarine Canyon Abyssal
Plain
Seamount
Guyot Mid-Ocean Ridge
Rift ValleyTrench
