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What happens to the ocean floor comes into contact with a continental plate?
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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.
Why the crust is thinner than the ocean floor?
The crust is the Ocean floor. There is Oceanic Crust, And then There is Continental Crust.
Why does continental drift occur?
because of sea-floor spreading
What makes up the continents and the ocean floor?
The continental and oceanic plates are primarily igneous rock. The continental crust is granitic and the oceanic crust is basaltic.
Why are the oldest parts of the ocean floor no older than about 200 million years.?
Because the oldest parts reach the continental crust and then the ocean floor sinks beneath the continental crust, into the mantle.
What happens when the continental crust is over the ocean floor?
because 0ness
What happened to the clay ball when it hit the floor?
The underside (the side which comes in contact with the floor) flattens.
When the ocean floor collides with a crustal plate what happens?
it subducts underneath the crustal plate
What happens when sea floor plate slides into a continental plate what type of boundary wiil it make?
mountains or volcanoes will appear
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 is separates the continental shelf from the ocean floor?
continental slope. :)
What are the three primary topographic profiles of the ocean floor?
Continental shelf Continental slope abyss/abyssal plain
How do you make noises when you stamp on the floor?
when you stamp on the floor it makes the noise as your foot comes into contact with the floor the floor vibrates making the noise. If the floor is hollow beneath i.e. a wooded suspended floor then the sound is magnified in the same manner as a drum
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 does the continental slope look like?
Ocean floor from the edge of the continental shelf to the continental rise
What are the three regions of the ocean floor?
the continental Margin, Ocean Basin Floor and Mid-Ocean ridge :D
What are the levels of the ocean called?
The continental shelf, continental slop and the ocean floor
