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Sea floor notes
Sea floor notes games
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| Continental Margin | Region of the Sea floor that contain the shelf and slope |
| Continental Shelf | The part of the continant that is underwater |
| Continintal Slope | Where water deepens abruptly and the edge of the Continental land mass drops off |
| Ocean Basin Floor | Begins where the slope ends, region made up of mountains, ridges, trenches, valleys, rifts, guyots, abyssal plains, and canyons plateau |
| Abyssal Plain | Vast smooth areas on floor |
| Trenches | Cracks on the earths crust, deepest part of the oceans |
| Guyots | Flat topped volcanic |
| Rift | A valley that runs along the center of a ridge |
| Seamount | isolated mountain that rises more than 3000 feet above the sea floor |
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