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Ocean Floor Features
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Answers |
a long narrow hole that forms as plates separate |
rift valley |
a large, flat, almost level area of the deep ocean |
abyssal plain |
a long, undersea mountain chain |
mid-ocean ridge |
a mountain on the ocean floor from a volcano |
seamount |
between the shoreline and the continental slope |
continental shelf |
formed when one tectonic plate subducts under another |
ocean trench |
between the continental slope and the abyssal plain |
continental rise |