Topography of the Ocean Floor

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This is a seamount that has grown above sea level, then eroded and weathered flat by waves at its top--eventually carried deeper and submerged by plate movement

The older the oceanic crust, the ____ the sediments that sit atop it.

Crust is destroyed at ____.

This is the wide, flat, sediment-covered part of the ocean floor.

A gap in the ocean floor that results from two plates pulling apart, generally found in the middle of a mid-ocean ridge

This is the gradually sloping area that extends from the shore out to the continental slope.

Mid-ocean ridges form at _____ boundaries.

Where are ocean floor features most likely to occur?