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What are the levels of the ocean called?
The continental shelf, continental slop and the ocean floor
What zone covers the entire ocean floor past the continental shelf?
abyssal plain
The place where the ocean floor suddenly plunges downward is called the A. continental shelf. B. continental slope. C. abyssal plain. D. abyssal hill.?
The answer is: B. Continental slope.
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 relatively steep transition between the continental shelf and the ocean basin is the?
the continental slope
What are the levels of the ocean called?
The continental shelf, continental slop and the ocean floor
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
What are land from continent's edge to ocean floor?
The continental rise and the continental shelf.
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 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 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.
What is the gently sloping shallow area of the ocean floor that extends outward from the edge of the continent?
continental shelf
What are the 2 categories of marine habitats?
The deep, dark, ocean floor past the continental shelf, and the shallower, lighter, depths of the continental shelf.
What is the part the ocean floor nearest the continents?
The continental shelf
