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Oceans
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Each continent is rimmed by a submerged, fairly shallow shelf.This shelf is called? | Continental shelf |
| The area where most ocean life lives is the continental shelf. True or False | True |
| The land area that begins where the continental shelf ends and dramatically drops to the sea floor is called? | continental slope |
| The gently rising area where the continental slope becomes the abyssal plain is called the __________. | continental rise |
| The vast floor of the deep oceans is known as the ___________. | abyssal plain |
| The abyssal plain covers over half of earth's surface. True or false | True |
| The place where plates of the Earth's crust along the ocean floor split apart and molten rock pushes up.This is called? | mid-ocean ridges |
| Places where two plates of the Earth's crust hit each other, forcing one of the plates to go under the other one. | Trenches |
| A steep-sided volcanic mountain that is usually submerged under the ocean. | seamounts |
| a ring of islands around a shallow central lagoon | atoll |
| The deepest part of the ocaen is known as trenches. True or False | True |
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