Ocean Floor Vocab
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The continental shelf | an underwater landmass which extends from a continent, resulting in an area of relatively shallow water known as a shelf sea
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The continental slope | the zone of the ocean floor that separates the thin oceanic crust from thick continental crust
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The continental rise | the final stage in the boundary between continents and the deepest part of the ocean
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Abyssal plain | an underwater plain lying between the continental rise and the deep ocean floor
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Mid-ocean ridges | an underwater mountain system formed by plate tectonics
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Rift valley | a valley running along the spine of mi-ocean ridges
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Sea mounts | a mountain rising from the ocean seafloor that does not reach to the water's surface (sea level), and thus is not an island
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Ocean trenches | long but narrow topographic depressions of the sea floor
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