Across
- 1. bathymetry the shape of the ocean floor, is largely a result of a process called plate tectonics
- 4. Starting from land, a trip across an ocean basin along the seafloor would begin with crossing the continental shelf
- 5. Rising up from the abyssal plain, you would encounter the mid-ocean ridge, an underwater mountain range
Down
- 2. Continuing your journey across the ocean basin, you would descend the steep continental slope to the abyssal plain
- 3. After scaling the mid-ocean ridge and traversing hundreds to thousands of miles of abyssal plains