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What is the Outer edge of the continental shelf to the ocean floor?
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What are the levels of the ocean called?
The continental shelf, continental slop and the ocean floor
What is separates the continental shelf from the ocean floor?
continental slope. :)
What are the 3 main regions of the ocean floor?
The ocean floor is divided into the Continental Shelf, the Continental Slope, and the Continental Rise.
What are the three primary topographic profiles of the ocean floor?
Continental shelf Continental slope abyss/abyssal plain
Steep area between continental shelf and ocean floor?
The steep area between the continental shelf and the ocean floor is called the continental margin. A continental margin is usually composed of a steep continental slope that is followed by the flatter continental rise.
What is the part of the ocean floor nearest the continent?
Continental Shelf.
What does the continental slope look like?
Ocean floor from the edge of the continental shelf to the continental rise
What is a gradually sloping portion of the ocean floor that is made of the continental crust?
Continental shelf.
What is a gradually Sloping portion of the ocean floor that is made of continental crust?
Continental shelf.
What is a continental slope?
The continental slope is the area between the offshore shallows out to where the continental shelf dips steeply to the sea floor. It connects those two areas. The continental shelf is where the shallow waters of the ocean meet the shore. Farther out, the water gets progressively deeper, and this is the continental slope. At the outer edge of the continental slope, the bottom drops sharply away and plunges to the deep ocean. The Wikipedia article has more information and some drawings and diagrams. A link is provided. The steep slopingpart of the ocean floor termination of continental shelves is called continental slope.
What is the gently sloping shallow area of the ocean floor that extends outward from the edge of the continent?
continental shelf
What are the 2 categories of marine habitats?
The deep, dark, ocean floor past the continental shelf, and the shallower, lighter, depths of the continental shelf.
