| A | B |
|---|
| Continental shelf | Contains the largest amount of biological organisms |
| Tethys | Shallow sea that separated Eurasia from Africa |
| Granite | Common rock of the continental crust |
| Lithosphere | Name of the crust |
| Antarctic | Southern Ocean |
| Guyot | Submarine mountains that have a flattened tops due to erosion |
| Seamount | Submarine mountains |
| Habitat | Place where organism live |
| sediment | Loose materials that settled to the bottom |
| Glomar Challenger | Ocean vessel to actually take rock samples along the mid-ocean ridge |
| Density | Mass divided by volume |
| Abyssal plain | large deeep-sea flat areas |
| Core | Center of the earth |
| Plate tectonics | Theory that suggests the continents are drifting |
| Island arc | Aleutians are an example of this earth feature |
| Hydrothermal vents | Result when super heated water seeps into fissures |
| Lithogenic sediments | Come from the erosion of land |
| Basalt | Mineral that makes up the oceanic crust |
| Panthalassa | Super Ocean |
| San Andreas fault | Example of a shear boundary |
