Ch. 14.2 Ocean Floor Features
Objective
List the three main regions of the ocean floor
Notes
1. Continental Margins
a. Continental shelf
b. Continental Slope
c. Continental rise
2. Ocean – basin floor
a. Deep-ocean trenches
b. Abyssal plains
c. seamounts and guyots
3. Mid-ocean ridge
a. Seafloor spreading
b. hydrothermal vents
Draw and Lab