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Ocean Floor

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  • The crust that made of granite. It is 30-50 km thick.
    Continental crust
  • The study of Earth's ocean
    Oceanography
  • An underwater volcanic mountain
    Seamount
  • Flat area underwater with sediment
    Abyssal plain
  • The scientists who study the ocean
    Oceanographer
  • The use of sound wave to find the distance to the bottom
    Echolocation
  • Name 5 world oceans
    Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, Arctic
  • A deep canyon forming between crusts in V-shape when a section of crust moves under another
    Ocean trench
  • An underwater volcanic mountain with flat top
    Guyot
  • Shallow underwater extension of continent
    Continental shelf
  • New oceanic crust forms at cracks
    Mid-ocean ridge
  • A volcano above the ocean surface
    Volcanic island
  • Steeply slanted area between shelf and ocean floor
    Continental slope
  • The crust that made of basalt. It is 5-10 km thick.
    Oceanic crust