I think you might refer to the continental shelf.....
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The area of ocean along the seashore is called the coastal zone or littoral zone. This region is influenced by interactions between the land and sea, and it is ecologically important for supporting diverse marine and terrestrial species.
The ocean has different zones that has plants and animals. The area along the ocean floor that consists of sand silt and dead organisms is called the benethic zone.
an area where rivers rise and fall with ocean tides
The Appalachian Mountains cover most of the area along the Atlantic Ocean in the eastern United States.
The type of current that creates warmer climates along a coastal area is a warm ocean current. Warm ocean currents bring warm water from the tropics to higher latitudes, resulting in milder temperatures along the coast.
That is called an ocean.