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What is the area between the continental shelf and the ocean floor?
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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 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
Description about topography of ocean floor?
The relationship between the existence of the plume influence and ocean floor topography.
What are land from continent's edge to ocean floor?
The continental rise and the continental shelf.
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 the ocean floor part of?
The bottom of the ocean is part of a tectonic plate or continental shelf, or can be on the breach line between two shelves.
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.
