Friday, October 25, 2013

A. Flat Abyssal plain- an underwater plain on the deep ocean floor, usually found at depths between 3000 and        6000 m. Lying generally between the foot of a continental rise and a mid ocean ridge. 

B. Seamount or guyot- an isolated underwater volcanic mountain.

C. Continental shelf, break, slope, rise- an underwater extension of the coastal plain. 

D. Submarine canyon- a steep-sided valley cut into the sea floor of the continental slope.

E. Mid ocean ridge- a general term for an underwater mountain system that consists of various mountain ranges.

F.Trench and island arc system- An island arc is a type of archipelago, often composed of a chain of volcanoes.

1. Our surveyed are and our topography was generally flat, other than a few rifts.

2. The advantage of remote sensing technology is that it gathers information more accurately than what we just       see.

3. Stretching the Y-axis on a graph has some advantages. One of the advantages is that it allows more objects       to fit onto the graph.

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