Ocean floor features

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Continental
shelf
Continental
shelf
Is the ocean floor along a
continent’s coast.
(The ocean floor is covered by shallow
water that slowly slopes down)

3. Continental
Slope
Continental Slope
The sharp slope at which the
continental shelf ends

4. Continental rise
Continental rise Is the gentle slope after the
continental slope

5. Abyssal plain
Abyssal plain
A wide flat area on the ocean floor
(Found near mouths of large rivers)

6. Submarine
canyon
Is a steep side valley in a
continental slope.
(Found near mouths of large rivers)

7. Trenches
Deepest part of the ocean floor
(Usually long and narrow)

8. Sea mount
An underwater mountain that rises
from the ocean floor but stops
before it reaches the surface of the
water.

9. Mid ocean
ridges
Underwater mountain ranges.

10. Rift valley The valley down the center of a mid
ocean ridge.