For an essentially small triangulated category $\mathcal{ T}$, we introduce the notion of prime thick subcategories and define the spectrum of $\mathcal{ T}$, which shares the basic properties with the spectrum of a tensor triangulated category introduced by Balmer. We mainly focus on triangulated categories that appear in algebraic geometry such as the derived and the singularity categories of a noetherian scheme $X$. We prove that certain classes of thick subcategories are prime thick subcategories of these triangulated categories. Furthermore, we use this result to show that certain subspaces of $X$ are embedded into their spectra as topological spaces.
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