Ch 16 Vocabulary and Concepts
Across
- 3. The flattest part of the ocean floor, 5-6 km below sea level
- 7. The shallowest part of the continental margin
- 9. Sloping regions past the continental shelf where seafloor drops quickly
- 11. Accumulations of deposits that form at the bottom of the continental slope
- 13. Rapidly flowing water currents along the bottom of the ocean and can carry large amounts of sediment
- 14. Current formed when water incoming from a breaker spills over the longshore bar
- 15. Basaltic, submerged volcano on the sea floor, more than 1 km high
Down
- 1. Area in which sediment is deposited along the shore
- 2. Long ridges of sand/sediment shaped by longshore current and separated from mainland
- 4. Chain of underwater mountains that run along the ocean floor, and length over 65,000km.
- 5. Where edges of the continent meet the ocean
- 6. When the crest of a wave is bent due to change in wave speed.
- 8. Area off shore where water becomes shallow again.
- 10. Deepest part of the ocean basins
- 12. Large, extinct, basaltic volcano with a flat, submerged top