Across
- 3. two plates slide past each other
- 6. Without light
- 9. Flat,featureless part of the seafloor that can extend for thousands of miles
- 10. plates collide or come together
- 12. gap located at the center of the mid-ocean ridge where the plates are pulling apart
- 14. decreases the deeper you go in the ocean
- 16. Steeply sloping edge of a continental shelf that drops to the ocean basin
- 20. Underwater mountain chain, runs through middle of the ocean created by divergent boundary
- 23. Open ocean within the Pelagic
- 24. Plates divide or move apart
- 25. Neritic and Oceanic (the whole ocean basin)
Down
- 1. Division where sunlight occure
- 2. underwater mountain formed by volcanic activity, below sea level
- 4. when one plate slides under another plate
- 5. created when a continent-continent plates collide
- 7. Deep ocean trough created when an ocean plates slide under a continental plate
- 8. zone where aphotic zone begins
- 11. Relatively flat part of the continent that sticks out underwater
- 13. increases the deeper you go in the ocean
- 15. a ring-shaped reef, island, or chain of islands formed of coral around a sunken island
- 17. created when two plates slide past each other
- 18. zone where trenches occur
- 19. Ocean seafloor or bottom
- 21. Volcano that sunk beneath ocean’s surface and top flattened from wave action
- 22. Division of Pelagic near shoreline