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What is the part of the ocean floor nearest the continent?
Continental Shelf.
What feature is being created at the continent and the ocean floor?
Molten meaterial
Which feature of the ocean floor is shallow and close to the edge of the continent?
pie
Means the ocean floor is pulled under the continent?
This occurs in a subduction zone.
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
What continent do the cayman islands belong?
Islands in an ocean don't belong to any continent. If they were part of a continent they wouldn't be islands would they? The African Continent is the continent nearest the Canary Islands, but the islands are the result of volcanic activity on the ocean floor.
What is an ocean to continent boundary?
An ocean to continent boundary is where the oceanic crust meets the continental crust. This typically occurs at a continental shelf, which is the gently sloping transition between the continent and the ocean floor. This boundary is marked by significant differences in physical and geological characteristics between the two crust types.
A sharp drop from a continent to an ocean basin is called what?
A sharp drop from a continent to an ocean basin is called a continental slope. This feature marks the boundary between the continental shelf and the deep ocean floor.
What is a transition zone between a ocean basin floor and a continent?
The transition zone between an ocean basin floor and a continent is known as the continental shelf. It is the submerged part of a continent that extends from the shoreline to the continental slope. The continental shelf is characterized by relatively shallow waters and is an area of high biological productivity.
How do the features of the ocean floor compare with the features of continents?
About 71% of the surface of the earth is covered by ocean. That leaves about 29% in the continents. So there is roughly 2.5 times as much ocean as continent.
What are the different types of convergent plate boundary?
ocean-ocean ocean-continent continent-continent
