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Since everything is measured at sea level then a continent would be above sea level thus higher than the sea floor which would be below sea level, but there are mountains under the sea that are every bit as high as the highest mountains on any continent.
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What is the part of the ocean floor nearest the continent?
Continental Shelf.
What feature is being created at the continent and the ocean floor?
Molten meaterial
Which feature of the ocean floor is shallow and close to the edge of the continent?
pie
Means the ocean floor is pulled under the continent?
This occurs in a subduction zone.
What are land from continent's edge to ocean floor?
The continental rise and the continental shelf.
The point at which the continent stops and the rock of the ocean floor begins is the called the continental?
Slope
The point at which the continent stops and the rock of the ocean floor begins is called the?
Continental Slope
What continent do the cayman islands belong?
Islands in an ocean don't belong to any continent. If they were part of a continent they wouldn't be islands would they? The African Continent is the continent nearest the Canary Islands, but the islands are the result of volcanic activity on the ocean floor.
What is a transition zone between a ocean basin floor and a continent?
Best Answer - Chosen by VotersContinental Shelf.
What are the different types of convergent plate boundary?
ocean-ocean ocean-continent continent-continent
How do the features of the ocean floor compare with the features of continents?
About 71% of the surface of the earth is covered by ocean. That leaves about 29% in the continents. So there is roughly 2.5 times as much ocean as continent.
Mountains located on the ocean floor are higher than the tallest mountain on land?
true!
