Ocean Floor Vocab

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Across
  1. 5. Shallow underwater ledge found at the edge of a continent.
  2. 7. Underwater mountains that number in the thousands and formed from volcanoes.
  3. 8. A wide ocean mountain range with steep valleys at the center found in the Atlantic Ocean.
  4. 9. Opening in the oceanic crust where magma escapes and makes new crust.
  5. 10. Separates the continental slope from the ocean bottom.
Down
  1. 1. A large flat area on the ocean floor.
  2. 2. An opening on the ocean floor where mineral-rich water escapes.
  3. 3. Flat topped underwater mountains.
  4. 4. A deep slope between a continental shelf and sea floor.
  5. 6. Narrow channels more than 2 miles deep found along the margins of continents.