Chapter 2 Vocabulary List

24. lithogenous sediment

1. habitat

25. red clay

2. density

26. biogenous sediment

3. core

27. calcium carbonate

4. mantle

28. calcareous ooze

5. crust

29. interglacial period

6. basalt

30. ice age

7. granite

31. continental margin

8. continental drift

32. continental shelf

9. Pangaea

33. continental slope

10. plate tectonics

34. continental rise

11. mid-ocean ridge

35. submarine canyon

12. fault

36. shelf break

13. trenches

37. deep sea fan

14. rifts

38. active margin

15. sea-floor spreading

39. passive margin

16. lithosphere

40. abyssal plain

17. asthenosphere

41. seamount

18. subduction

42. guyot

19. island arc

43. central rift valley

20. convection

44. hydrothermal vent

21. Panthalassa

45. sulfide

22. Laurasia

46. black smoker

23. Gondwana