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What is the deepest part of the ocean floor?
A
trench
B
fjord
C
crustal crease
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The deepest part of the ocean is called the Challenger Deep and is located beneath the western Pacific Ocean in the southern end of the Mariana Trench, which runs several hundred kilometers southwest of the U.S. territorial island of Guam. Challenger Deep is approximately 10, 935 meters (35, 876 feet) deep.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Mariana Trench is an oceanic trench located in the western Pacific Ocean, about 200 kilometres (124 mi) east of the Mariana Islands; it is the deepest oceanic trench on Earth. It is crescent-shaped and measures about 2, 550 km (1, 580 mi) in length and 69 km (43 mi) in width.

Detailed explanation-3: -At many convergent plate boundaries, dense lithosphere melts or slides beneath less-dense lithosphere in a process called subduction, creating a trench. Ocean trenches occupy the deepest layer of the ocean, the hadalpelagic zone.

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