The seafloor is composed of sediment and

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

Crust is created at ______.

Crust is destroyed at ____.

_____ form at subduction zones.

Mid-ocean ridges form at _____ boundaries.

What process(es) recycles the crust of the spreading ocean floor?

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

These are underwater mountains that are volcanic in origin.

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

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

Where are ocean floor features most likely to occur?

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