Question

The correct order of marine provinces from the coast to the mid-ocean ridge is:

A. abyssal plain, rise, slope, shelf.
B. slope, rise, shelf, abyssal plain.
C. shelf, slope, rise, abyssal plain.
D. rise, abyssal plain, slope, shelf.
E. abyssal plain, shelf, slope, rise.

Answer 1

C. shelf, slope, rise, abyssal plain.

Step-by-step explanation:

• The ocean floor topography starts with the continental shields and then the slopes and then the that forms the 200 meters and the continental slopes id form the 2000 to 3000 meters and after which the continental rise starts to form a depth of 4000m and till the abyssal plains that is 6000 meters and the depths of the oceanic trenches to a depth of about 10,000 meters.