Ocean features Flashcards

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What is a continental slope?

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Narrow, about 16km, gives way to the continental rise

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What is continental shelf?

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Gradually sloping part of the ocean, it ends at the continental slope

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What is the abyssal plain?

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Flat ocean floor

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What are sea mounts?

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Mountains that can clime over 3000meters above the abyssal plain

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What is mid ocean ridges?

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Over the abyssal plain, very long chain of mountains

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What are guyots?

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Seamounts that had once rose to the surface

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What are ocean trenches?

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The deepest places in the ocean reaching more then 11,000meters deep

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What percentage of earths surface is ocean?

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70.8%

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What is the photic zone?

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sunlight can penetrate it

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