Vocab

5. a powerful, warm current that originates at the tip of Florida
6. the removal or extraction of salt from water to make it drinkable
7. the slope that starts at the outer edge of the continental shelf and ends at the ocean floor
8. a plain on deep ocean floor that lies generally between the continental rise and mid-ocean ridge
9. Shelf the area around a continent that is more shallow than the open ocean
12. underwater mountains formed by a divergent plate boundary

1. white crystal salt soluble in water that is gotten from seawater and mineral deposits
2. when subsurface cold, denser water replaces warm, less dense surface water
3. the area between the continental slope and the abyssal plain
4. a valley formed by a continental- continental convergent boundary
10. the deepest part of the ocean
11. a mountain rising from the ocean floor that has not reached the surface of the water and is not considered an island