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Ocean Landforms Vocabulary Quiz
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large, flat area of the ocean floor |
abyssal plain |
long, v-shaped canyon on ocean floor |
trench |
an underwater mountain range |
mid-ocean ridge |
deepest part of the ocean floor, made of hills and flat plains |
ocean basin |
part of a continent that slopes gently away from the shoreline |
continental shelf |
an area between 2 faults/cracks in Earth's crust where the land seperates forming a valley along the mid-ocean ridge |
rift zone |
steep ending of a continent between the continental shelf and the deep ocean floor |
continental slope |