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2 I am an extension off of the continental crust.

3 What is the continental shelf?

4 Most sediment is found here.

5 What is the abyssal plain?

6 The connection from the continental shelf and the abyssal plain

7 What is the continental slope?

8 I am deeper than Mount Everest is tall.

9 What is the Mariana trench?

10 The majority of the oceans food is found here.

11 What is the continental shelf?

12 When two crustal plates move apart.

13 What is a divergent boundary?

14 When two crustal plates move together.

15 What is convergent boundaries?

16 I cause earthquakes in California.

17 What is the San Andrea Fault?

18 Lava comes up and forms new oceanic crust at a rate of 2.5 cm a year.

19 What is the mid- ocean ridge?

20 I am formed by the rivers coming from the continent.

21 What is an underwater canyon?

22 I cause the waves to move.

23 What are water particles?

24 The distance between the crest of two waves.

25 What is a wavelength?

26 I am the amplitude squared.

27 What is energy of a wave?

28 The distance between a crest and a trough.

29 What is amplitude?

30 The waves slow down and eventually break.

31 What is a breaker?

32 Organisms that float with the waves.

33 What is plankton?

34 I swim freely in the ocean.

35 What is nekton?

36 Marine life that lives on the bottom of the ocean.

37 What are benthos?

38 Buoyancy is used for me to move.

39 How does a nekton move?

40 The beginning of the ocean food chain.

41 What is phytoplankton?

42 An area of lava between the upper mantle and the lower crust

43 What is a hot spot?

44 The largest mountain ranges on earth.

45 What is the mid- ocean ridge

46 The oceanic crust sinks below the continental crust.

47 What is a subduction zone?

48 The process of the ocean floor moving and magma coming seeping up through the crack.

49 What is sea-floor spreading?

50 A ring of volcano’s that surround the Pacific Plate

51 What is the “Ring of Fire?”