Features of the Ocean Floor

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Features of the Ocean Floor
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shoreline

• The point where land meets the water

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Continental shelf

• Sloping shelf of land that is made of the edges
  of the continent

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Continental Edge

• The part of the continental shelf that begins to
  angle sharply down

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Continental Slope

• The steep cliff like drop from the continental
  edge to the ocean floor

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Continental rise

• Lower part of the continental slope which extends
  to the ocean floor

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Abyssal Plain

• The broad flat ocean bottom

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Trenches

• Deepest parts of the ocean created by the
  undersea rivers and currents

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Mid-Ocean Ridge

• A chain of mountains under the sea

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Rift Valley

• Large crack that runs down the middle of the
  Mid-Ocean Ridge

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Seamounts

• An underwater mountain formed by a volcano

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Guyots

• Inactive volcanoes on the ocean floor