VOCAB

2. the stress that causes plates to be pushed towards each other
3. Ridge a long underwater mountain chain, produced by seafloor spreading at divergent plate boundaries
5. Boundary created when plates move towards each other
7. Boundary created when plates slide past each other
8. a long, narrow, deep depression on the ocean floor
11. a seamount whose top has been eroded flat by wave action, and then subsides
13. Current an underwater mudslide of sediments
14. Slope the steep decline from the continental shelf to the ocean floor
15. Canyon a deeply eroded area in the continental slope carved out by ancient rivers and/or turbidity currents
16. an underwater mountain, usually volcanic

1. Boundary created when plates move away from each other
4. ring-shaped coral reef, encircling a shallow lagoon
6. Currents a heat transfer process of flowing fluid that is moving because there is a temperature or density difference within the material.
9. Rise a mound of sediments at the base of the continental slope
10. Plain a flat area on the ocean floor, covered by a thick layer of fine sediment, making them the flattest places on Earth.
12. Valley an undersea valley, located along the center of the mid-ocean ridge, from which lava seeps out and creates new ocean floor.