Seafloor
The part of the seafloor that is past the continental shelf
What is the continental slope?
What is the benthic zone?
area where plates are moving away from each other
What is a transform boundary?
Zone in the open ocean
What is the pelagic zone?
the part of the Earth made of iron
What is the inner core?
the process which supports life at hydrothermal vents
What is chemosynthesis?
Another name for the epipelagic zone
What is the photic zone?
area where tectonic plates create structures like the Mid-Atlantic Ridge
What is a divergent boundary?
zone between the high and low tides
What is the littoral zone?
the layer of the Earth which contains the tectonic plates
What is the lithosphere?
structure which spits out super hot minerals like calcium and silica
What is a white smoker?
What is the sublittoral zone?
term that describes one tectonic plate sinking below another
What is subduction?
area where you find the hydrothermal vents
What is the abyssal plain?
the part of the Earth where varying temperatures of the magma moves the tectonic plates
What is the asthenosphere?
the idea that all the continents used to be one land mass that then split apart
What is continental drift?
word that means no light
What is aphotic?
the force that drives the movement of tectonic plates
What is convection / convection currents?
area that has animals which are transparent and bioluminescent?
the scientist who discovered continental drift
Who is Alfred Wegener?
the area where white crabs, tubeworms and bacteria all live
What are hydrothermal vents?
Area where there is such little light that no more photosynthesis is possible
What is the twilight zone?
the boundary at which seafloor spreading occurs
What is a divergent boundary?
area in the ocean depths where you can find the Dumbo octopus
What is the hadalpelagic zone?
the reason ocean crust subducts beneath continental crust
What is "because oceanic crust is more dense"?