Question

What is the Difference between Continetal Shelf and Continetal Slope

Answer 1

The continental shelf is flat while the continental slope is a slope .

Answer 2

The shelf usually ends at a point of increasing slope (called the shelf break). The sea floor below the break is the continental slope. Below the slope is the continental rise, which finally merges into the deep ocean floor, the abyssal plain. The continental shelf and the slope are part of the continental margin.