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What is oceanic crust? |
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What is continental crust? |
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What is lithosphere? |
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What is athenosphere? |
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What is mesosphere? |
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What is mantel? |
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What is outer core? |
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What is inner core? |
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The topmost layer that includeds balsalt, and fedsphere |
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Is the layer of granitic, and metamorphic rock. |
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The ridged outer part of earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantel |
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The upper layer of earths mantel, below the lithosphere |
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The layer beneath the asthenosphere that is strong made of part of the mantel |
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The layer of rock between the Eartha??s crust and core. |
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The liquid layer of Eartha??s core that lies beneath the mantel and surrounds the inner core. |
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The solid dense center of our planet that extends from the bottom of the outer core to the center of Earth. |
Who is Alfred Wegner? |
Scientist who looked at pieces of the land on eartha??s crust. |
What is Pangea? |
Pangea is a huge continent |
What is continental drift? |
The hypothesis that states that the continents once formed a single landmass |
What is midocean ridge? |
Are mountain chains that form where tectonic plates pull apart. |
What is sea-flour spreading? |
The process by which new oceanic litheosphere forms. |
What is convection currents? |
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A current fluid that results in convection |
What is plate boundary? |
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What is convergent boundary? |
The boundary between the plate tectonics when they collide. |
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A techtonic boundary where two plates are moving away from each other. |
What is a divergent boundary? |
The boundary between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other. |
What is transform boundary? |
The boundary between tectonic plates that are sliding past each other horizontally. |
What is subduction? |
Sideways downward movement of the edge of a plate of the eartha??s crust into the mantel beneath another plate |
What is the theory of plate tectonics? |
A theory that says the litheosphere is broken into plates and those plates are moving |
What is a volcano? |
Vents that allow lava, rock fragments and gases to escape from layers beneath the eartha??s surface |
What is a earthquake? |
Sudden violent shaking of the ground created by plates colliding. |
What is hotspot? |
A small area or region relatively hot temperature in comparison to its surroundings. |