Understanding Ocean Floor Features and Tectonic Plate Boundaries

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What is the gently sloping, shallow area of the ocean floor that extends outward from the edge of a continent called?

What is the name of the slope between the outer edge of the continental shelf and the deep ocean floor?

What is the undersea mountain chain where new ocean floor is produced, often found at a divergent plate boundary?

What forms at the sites of plate convergence where one moving plate descends beneath another and drops back into the mantle?

What are the places called where tectonic plates are coming together?

What is the term for a large, flat, almost level area of the deep-ocean basin?

What is an underwater mountain rising above the ocean floor called?

What is an island formed when an underwater volcano builds up enough lava and ash to rise above sea level?

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