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seafloor definitions

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Continental Marginregion of the sea floor that contains the shelf and slope.
Continental Shelfpart of the continent that is underwater.
Continental Slopewhere water deepens abruptly and the edgy of the continental land mass drops off.
OCEAN BASIN FLOORbegins where the slop ends, region made up of mountains, ridges, trenches, valleys, rifts, guyots, abyssal plains, and canyons plateau
ABYSSAL PLAINvast smooth areas on floor
TRENCHEScracks on the earth’s crust, deepest part of the oceans
GUYOTSflat topped volcanic mountains
RIFTa valley that runs along the center of a ridge
SEAMOUNTisolated mountain that rises more than 3000 ft. above the sea floor
MID-OCEAN RIDGEgreat undersea mountain ranges characterized by frequent earthquakes and volcanoes
ISLANDseamount that rises above the surface of the water
WHAT PERCENT OF EARTH COVERD IN WATER75%


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