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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. :)
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.
Can best be described as a transition zone between an ocean basin floor and a continent?
The best way to describe such a region would be as a continental slope. This area marks the boundary between the shallow continental shelf and the deep ocean floor. It is characterized by a steep incline leading down to the ocean basin.
The place where the ocean Floor suddenly plunges downward is called the?
continental slope
What is the place where the ocean floor suddenly plunges downward called?
CONTINENTAL SLOPE
What is the gently sloping submerged surface extending from the shoreline to the deep ocean?
The continental slope is the area of the ocean floor in which gently drops and is connected to the oceanic crust and continental shelf. This slope is caused by waves within the ocean.
What are the three primary topographic profiles of the ocean floor?
Continental shelf Continental slope abyss/abyssal plain
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.
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
