ocean floor features beth roland eighth grade science team 5 mountaineers
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Ocean Floor Features
Beth Roland
Eighth Grade Science
Team 5 Mountaineers
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Regions of the Ocean Floor
• 2 Major Regions– Continental Margin – consists of the
continental crust (shallow end of the pool!)• Continental shelf- begins at the shore line and
slopes gently to the open ocean. (surface to a depth of 200 m)
• Continental slope- steep slope that begins with the continental shelf and ends at the ocean floor (200 m – 4,000m)
• Continental rise-base of the continental slope. Consists of piles of sediment.
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Regions of the Ocean Floor• Deep-ocean basin is made of the oceanic
crust (deep end of the pool!)– Abyssal plain- broadest and flattest section of
the deep ocean basin. Home to many unique life forms which are adapted to survival in its cold, high pressure, and dark conditions
– Mid-ocean ridges- underwater mountain chains formed where tectonic plates pull apart from one another.
• Pulling creates cracks or rift zones. Magma will fill open spaces causing the sides to expand and create ridges
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Regions of the Ocean Floor
– Rift Valley-forms between the ridges of mountains.
– Ocean Trenches- Huge cracks in the deep ocean basin that form when one oceanic plate is pushed beneath a continental or other oceanic plate.
– Seamounts- individual mountains made of volcanic material that are formed where magma pushes through tectonic plates. Can build up above land and would become a volcanic island.
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Continental Margin and Deep Ocean Basin