Marine Biology Third Edition Castro Huber Chapter 2
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- Habits
- Places where organisis live.
- World Ocean
- all of the oceans put together
- Sothern Ocean
- body of water that surronds antartica
- Norther Ocean
- all of the other oceans
- density
- weight of a volume of a subject
- mass
- volume of a subject
- core
- innermost layer of the earth that is a composed mostly of mixtue of iron
- Mantle
- second layer from the core mostly though to be solid but it is near rocks melting point so it flowes
- Crust
- the layer that we live on and floats on the top
- basalt
- minerals that make up the ocean floor
- granite
- genreal type of continental rocks
- continentail drift
- all of the continents are slowly moving that is why they are not right up against eachother
- pangea
- all of the different continents joined together
- plate techtonics
- proof of coninential drift
- mid ocean ridge
- chain of volcanoes under the sea
- transformation faults
- cracks in the earths crust
- mid Atlantic ridge
- runs down center of atlantic ocean
- east pacific rise
- main section of ridge in eastern pacific
- trenches
- deep depresions in the sea-floor
- sediment
- loose matirial such as mud or sand on the bottom of the sea
- magnetic anomalies
- pattern of ridge on one side is identical of the other side
- rift
- when pices move appart and create a crack in the crust
- induction
- development of a generalized conclusion from a series of isolated observations
- sea-floor spreading
- process by which the sea floor spreads to create mid-ocean ridges
- spreading centers
- ridges
- lithospehre
- uppermost layer of the mantle
- lisospheric plates
- what the lisosphere is broken up into
- subducion
- downward movement of the plate into the mantle
- subduction zones
- trenches
- island arcs
- volcanic island chains assosiated with the trencehes
- sinus borealis
- what was to become the atlantic
- silocus ooze
- ooze made of silica