Ocean Topography
Across
- 2. a seamount that has risen above the water
- 6. an area where the oceanic and continental plates meet that is eroded where rivers empty into the ocean
- 8. Valley the deep area between the mid-ocean-ridge that forms as two oceanic plates divide
- 9. slope a steep drop off where the continental plate meets the oceanic plate
Down
- 1. shelf the gently sloping area that extends from the shore and into the ocean
- 3. flat areas of the the ocean that stretch for miles and miles
- 4. an underwater volcano
- 5. an underwater mountain chain that forms at a divergent boundary
- 7. an old volcanic island that has been weathered down and filled with water
- 10. a seemingly bottomless crack in the ocean floor formed at subduction zones