Lithospheric plates shear laterally past one another at _____.

How is the seafloor at a mid-ocean ridge (spreading center) different from seafloor at the edges of the ocean basin?

The Mid-Atlantic Ridge _____.

The first echo sounders were used for _____.

Bathymetry is the _____.

_____forms mainly from shells of the amoeba-like foraminifera; small, drifting molluscs called pteropods; and tiny algae known as coccolithophores.

Seawater’s density increases with _____. 

_____ sediments are minerals that have precipitated out of water.

True or False? log2 5 = log16 625

A teacher offers ten possible assignments for extra credit in a course but requires students to choose them, without looking, from a hat. Six assignments involve library research and four are computer programming exercises. Suppose that a student chooses two assignments, one after the other, at random without replacement. What is the probability that at least one of the assignments is a computer programming exercise?