EarthRef.org Digital Archive (ERDA) -- Hydrothermal Vent Glossary I

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This is a list of key terms that students from a elementary level should be familiar with when studying hydrothermal vents.

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hydrothermal vent, ERESE, glossary, ABE, Abyss, Abyssal plain, AUV, Benthic, Biocommunity, Biological oceanographer, Biomass, Biosphere, Black smokers, Chemical oceanographer, Chimney, Continental rise, Continental slope, East pacific rise, Food chain, Geochemist, Geophysicist, Geyser, Hydrothermal circulation, Hydrothermal vent, Juan de Fuca Plate, Magma, Magma chambers, Mantle, Marine biologist, Marine geologist, Megaplume, Microbe, Microbiologist, Mid-ocean ridge, Mother ship, Nazca plate, Oceanography, Pacific plate, Physical oceanographer, Plates, Primordial Rift, Rift valley, ROV, Seafloor spreading zones, Seamount, Slurper, Submersibles, Symbiosis, Tectonics

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