Ch 16 Vocabulary and Concepts

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Across
  1. 3. The flattest part of the ocean floor, 5-6 km below sea level
  2. 7. The shallowest part of the continental margin
  3. 9. Sloping regions past the continental shelf where seafloor drops quickly
  4. 11. Accumulations of deposits that form at the bottom of the continental slope
  5. 13. Rapidly flowing water currents along the bottom of the ocean and can carry large amounts of sediment
  6. 14. Current formed when water incoming from a breaker spills over the longshore bar
  7. 15. Basaltic, submerged volcano on the sea floor, more than 1 km high
Down
  1. 1. Area in which sediment is deposited along the shore
  2. 2. Long ridges of sand/sediment shaped by longshore current and separated from mainland
  3. 4. Chain of underwater mountains that run along the ocean floor, and length over 65,000km.
  4. 5. Where edges of the continent meet the ocean
  5. 6. When the crest of a wave is bent due to change in wave speed.
  6. 8. Area off shore where water becomes shallow again.
  7. 10. Deepest part of the ocean basins
  8. 12. Large, extinct, basaltic volcano with a flat, submerged top