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What Is An Island Slope?
An island slope is analogous to a continental slope, but it is attached to an oceanic island (volcano) rather than attached to a continent. In simple terms, it is that portion of the sea floor that slopes from an island's shallows down to the deep ocean floor.
What is the slpoe of the ocean floor in the intertidal zone?
continental slope
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.
Does soil and rock debris accumulate on the continental slope after being washed into the ocean?
No, it accumulates on the continental shelf and may subsequently move down the continental slope onto the ocean floor in "slump turbidity currents" when disturbed by earthquakes.
The place where the ocean floor suddenly plunges downward is?
the answer is continetal slope
What is the place where the ocean floor suddenly plunges downward called?
CONTINENTAL SLOPE
The place where the ocean Floor suddenly plunges downward is called the?
continental slope
What are the three primary topographic profiles of the ocean floor?
Continental shelf Continental slope abyss/abyssal plain
Why are abyssal plains important in features of the ocean floor?
Abyssal plains are important in features of the ocean floor because they are geological elements of oceanic basins. Abyssal plains can slope or lay flat against the ocean floor.
The point at which the continent stops and the rock of the ocean floor begins is the called the continental?
Slope
The point at which the continent stops and the rock of the ocean floor begins is called the?
Continental Slope
