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The smooth part of the ocean floor at 5 or 6 km below sea level is the?
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Abyssal Plain
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What is it called At 362011 feet the deepest known portion of the ocean floor?
There is no part of any ocean on earth that is 362011 feet below the surface.
Why are diatom shells found in ocean-floor sediments?
diatom shells settle on the ocean floor from the surface
Where can you find the youngest rocks on the ocean floor?
you can find the youngest rocks on the top of the ocean floor.
In the process of sea-floor spreading how does the ocean floor become wider?
New floor forms and spreads from mid-ocean ridges
What does ocean sea floor mean?
Ocean sea floor is the bottom of the ocean, under all the water, also known as benthos.
Is ocean floor smooth?
The ocean floor is not smooth.The ocean floor is made up of rocks, ledges and ditches.
where is the deepest point on the earth's ocean floor?
Mariana Trench is the lowest place in the ocean, located 11 kilometers below sea level.
What is a smooth flat region of the deep ocean floor?
butt
Is the ocean above at or below sea level?
The ocean is at sea level.
Is the sea floor smooth and level?
Yes, in many places it is. But like the surface of the earth that you can see, the ocean floor has many different topographies. The ocean floor has mountains, volcanoes, deep valleys, and reefs. There vast areas of vegetation and areas that are devoid of vegetation, often due to how deep they are and how much sunlight penetrates. There are also arctic regions of ocean floor as well as tropical regions. The ocean floor is really as varied as the continents above the water.
What is below the ocean floor?
Crust mantle core
Is the underside of the starfish smooth?
The underside of a starfish has many sucker like legs that the starfish uses to walk over the ocean floor - it is not smooth.
Is okinawa below sea level?
Okinawa is an island. Some of it is above water -- that is where people live. The largest part of it is under water, and goes all the way down to the ocean floor.
What is higher a continent or the ocean floor?
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.
What extends into the ocean then drops sharply to the ocean floor?
The Continental Shelf ; see related link below .
The most level part of the ocean floor is called the?
the abyssal plain
What population of the ocean floor is covered in coral?
No corals live on the ocean floor, they live in shallow seas, i.e. near contiental shelves, or coral atolls like in Hawai'i were the islands have eroded just below sea level where shallow warm waters are prime for coral growth.
