Picture
Lagoons
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:
Buada_Lagoon.jpg
Tidal Flats
http://www.cbbep.org/projects/
molliebeattie/whatisatidalflat.ht
m
Reefs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:
PamalicanAfterLiftOff.jpg
Continental Shelf
http://www.teara.govt.nz/files/di
5601gns.jpg
Description
A body of shallow salt or blackish water.
Usually formed by a build-up of
sandbanks or reefs along shallow waters.
sediment
Sand, rocks, salt
marshes , mud,
Sand or mud areas that typically don’t
have that much plant life.
Sand, salt marshes,
mud
A rock or sandbar under the surface of
water.
Sand, rocks
An extension of a continent under the sea. A
continental shelf can stretch for many miles
out to sea.
Icebergs, boulders,
sand, silt
Continental Slope&Rise
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Con
tinental_shelf
Abyssal Plain
http://image.absoluteastronomy.
com/images/encyclopediaimages
/o/oc/oceanic_basin.svg.png
The continental shelf breaks and under
the break is the continental slope. And
below the slope is the continental rise.
Sand, silt, clay
Sloping areas of the deep ocean basin
floor. These are flat sediment covered
areas.
Sand, shells, rocks