Convergent Boundaries
Tall ocean waves with extreme long wavelengths
What is a Tsunami?
Flat areas of the ocean floor
What is the Abyssal Plain?
The change in ecosystem over a period of time
What is succession?
the process of movement of plates in Earth's crust
What is Plate Tectonics?
the deepest part of the ocean on our planet
What is the Mariana Trench?
Happens when a plate suddenly moves or slip and releases energy
What is an Earthquake?
"Weighing the same"
What is isostasy?
Base of the food web at the vent
What are Chemosynthetic Bacteria?
Where new crust is created
What are divergent boundaries?
Uppermost layer of body of water that receives sunlight
What is the photic zone?
Longest, deepest, narrowest part of the seafloor
What is a trench?
Gently sloping region, over which the sea is relatively shallow
What is the continental Shelf?
The number of stages in a hydrothermal vents
What are 6 stages?
Where crust is being destroyed
What are convergent boundaries?
organism which is outcompeted and replaced by Rifitia, which is bigger and faster growing
What is Tevnia?
when the more dense plate is pushed underneath the less dense plate
What is Subduction?
isolated underwater volcanic mountain with a flat top more than 200 m below the surface of the sea
What is a guyot?
the stage where chemosynthetic bacteria colonizes the vent
What is stage 2?
Idea that states that the Earth's solid outer crust, the lithosphere, is separated into plates that move over the asthenosphere
What is theory of Plate Tectonics?
Continuous underwater volcanic mountain range
What are Mid-Ocean ridges?
what is happening when two plates collide and subduction is occurring
What is recycling of the oceanic plate?
Deep Valleys cut into the side of the continental slope
What are submarine Canyons?
the chemical that organisms use to provide food/glucose in chemosynthesis
What is hydrogen sulfide?
where crust is neither created nor tectonically destroyed
What are transform boundaries?
Common along divergent boundaries because of thin crust due to plates separating
What are Volcanoes?