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Oceans

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