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What zone covers the entire ocean floor past the continental shelf?
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abyssal plain
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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. :)
When the ocean floor collides with a crustal plate what happens?
it subducts underneath the crustal plate
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.
Why is the earth 4.6 billion years old but the oldest sea floor is only 180 millions years old?
Just as new sea floor forms at mid-ocean ridges, new sea floor is forced back into the mantle at abduction zones. The oldest seafloor is at east and west the edges of the Atlantic Ocean, dating to the breakup of Pangaea.
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 regions of the ocean floor?
the continental Margin, Ocean Basin Floor and Mid-Ocean ridge :D
What is the ocean zone that covers the continental shelf?
The zone of ocean under shelf and continental slope are continental.
What are the levels of the ocean called?
The continental shelf, continental slop and the ocean floor
What covers that Atlantic Ocean's continental margin?
The Atlantic ocean.
What is separates the continental shelf from the ocean floor?
continental slope. :)
Why is it that ancient rocks are found on the continents and not on the ocean floor?
The entire ocean floor is recycled in roughly 160 million year cycles through the process of plate tectonics. Because continental plates do not subduct, the rock is much, much older, particularly in the continental interior.
Description about topography of ocean floor?
The relationship between the existence of the plume influence and ocean floor topography.
What are the three primary topographic profiles of the ocean floor?
Continental shelf Continental slope abyss/abyssal plain
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 Maine three region of the ocean floor?
the continental Margin, Ocean Basin Floor and Mid-Ocean ridge :D
What are the three main regions of the ocean floor?
the continental Margin, Ocean Basin Floor and Mid-Ocean ridge :D
