List the three major features of a passive continental margin. Which of these features is considered a flooded extension of the continent? Which one has the steepest slope?
What will be an ideal response?
The features making up passive continental margins include the continental shelf (the flooded extension of the continent), the continental slope (has the steepest slope), and the continental rise.
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