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About 250 million years ago all of the continents were just one large one, formed together, known as Pangaea. This one large mass broke up two main continents, known as Gondwana and Laurasia. These large continents eventually broke off into the continents that we have today.

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Continents can be found all around the world. All of us are even living on one of them.

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One example of a continent is the one I live in, North America

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Over a very long time, organic and inorganic materials created the continental shelves. Inorganic materials build up as the rivers carried sediments to the edges of the continents and into the ocean. These sediments slowly accumulated in layers at the edges of the continents.

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At the coastline of a continent extending to a certain drop off point called the shelf break.

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A good example is our coast here in Virginia. If you go out to the coast you will surely will see the continental shelf.

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Continental Rises are formed from a results of three sedimentary processes: mass wasting, the deposition from contour currents, and the vertical settling of clastic and biogenic particles.

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At the coastline of a continent, underwater between the continental slope and the abyssal plain

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An example is the coastline here in Virginia beach

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Continental slopes form by sediment buildup. The amount of steepness the slope has depends on if the tectonic plates the sediment is build up on are interacting or not.

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At the coastline of a continent, it is underwater between the shelf break and the continental rise.

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An example is the coastline here in Virginia beach

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They are formed by the spreading of the seafloor (plate tectonics) and the melting of the lower oceanic crust.

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At the coastline of a continent, it is underwater between the continental rise and a mid-ocean ridge.

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An example is still the coastline here in va beach, you will see this as long as most of what else ive mentioned

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They are usually formed from extinct volcanoes that rise abruptly and mostly are found rising from the seafloor to 1,000 to 4,000 m in height.

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There are a large amount of them found in the North Pacific Ocean.

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Any of the seamounts found in the North Pacific Ocean.

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They are formed just like seamounts, but they continue to form and go above the sea level, then erosion occurs from the sea waves and makes it flat on top.

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There are very common in the Pacific ocean.

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Any one of the many in the Pacific ocean.

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There is ridge-pushing and slab pulling, dealing with the growing part of the ridge pushing the rest of the tectonic plate away from the ridge and the weight of the plate being pulled below the overlying plate.

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It is located along the floor of the Pacific Ocean.

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The part of the mid-Atlantic Ridge in Thingvellir National Park, Iceland.

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Islands are formed from magma erupting from below the ocean, from inside of the Earth. As volcanoes erupt, layers of lava build up and eventually break the water's surface.

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It can be found in our oceans all around the world.

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Hawaiian Islands

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They are formed by subduction

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In the deepest parts of the ocean

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The Challenger Deep, part of the South Pacific's Mariana Trench.

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They are the results of erosion over time of currents on the shelf and slope.

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underwater, where the shelf and slope are.

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An example is the coastline here in Virginia beach, under the water near the shelf and slope.

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Rift valleys are formed by a spreading apart of the plates, and further deepened by erosion.

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There are found on land and at the bottom of the ocean, where they are created by the process of seafloor spreading.

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The East African Rift system, which extends north to the Red Sea and east into the Indian Ocean.

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It is formed by coral larvae attaching themselves to soil or rocks near the coasts. The larvae become polyps. They live in waters that have enough sunlight seeping through. They end up secreting calcium carbonate as they grow, and it ends up on the rocks and provides a substrate for more polyps to come attach themselves to the formation.

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They can be found forming on rocks or soil near the coasts of an island or continent.

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There are fringing reefs formed around the Pacific Islands.

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Barrier reefs are the result of fringing reefs slowly combining with each other and end up forming a border line along the coast

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They are found along the coast of an island or of a continent.

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The Great Barrier Reef, found on the Australian coast.

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As the coral grows further on the barrier reef, it becomes heavy and pushes sea rocks underneath and then emerge as one more island.

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In the middle of an ocean, possibly near coral islands or cays. They also usually sit on the rim of an extinct seamount or volcano.

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The Atafu atoll in Tokelau in the Pacific Ocean.