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What is the gently sloping submerged surface extending from the shoreline to the deep ocean?
The continental slope is the area of the ocean floor in which gently drops and is connected to the oceanic crust and continental shelf. This slope is caused by waves within the ocean.
What is the ocean zone that covers the continental shelf?
The zone of ocean under shelf and continental slope are continental.
Which side of Florida has the widest continental shelf?
The widest continental shelf in Florida is the Gulf continental shelf. It is along the central-west coast of the state.
How is the slope different from the continental shelf?
Continental shelf is an undersea extension of a continent. Continental slope connects the continental shelf to the abyssal plain.
What forces control the shape of a continental shelf?
Tectonic forces and the climate control the shape of the continental shelf. The continental shelf is the part of the continent that extends into the ocean.
The maximum depth of the continental shelf is 200 kilometers true or false?
true
What is the maximum depth of the continental shelf?
200 km
The water depth increases greatly in comparison to areas closer to the shoreline?
Continental shelf
Where does the water depth increases greatly in comparison to areas closer to the shoreline?
Continental shelf
How deep is the water over a continental shelf?
The average width of the continental shelf is about 80 km or 50 miles. The Shelf descends steeply down to the continental rise before reaching the ocean floor.
The portion of land that extends into the ocean is called the continental?
shelf
What is the flattest part of the continental margin?
Continental Slopes.
What do you call the part of a continent that extends underwater?
Land. Continental shelf.
What begins at the edge of the continental shelf?
the continental shelf-edge or shelf-break
What is the benthopelagic zone?
the depth zone about 100 metres off the bottom at all depths below the edge of the continental shelf.
What is the gently sloping submerged surface extending from the shoreline to the deep ocean?
The continental slope is the area of the ocean floor in which gently drops and is connected to the oceanic crust and continental shelf. This slope is caused by waves within the ocean.
What is the approximate average ocean depth along the continental shelves bordering North America?
The depth of the continental shelf varies. It is generally limited to shallow water, shallower then 490ft. Vertical relief is minimal at less then 20m. The slope of the shelf is also quite low, 0.5degrees
