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We are standing on what type of crust
What is continental crust?
Plate in Africa
What is the African Plate
a theory explaining the structure of the earth's crust and many associated phenomena as resulting from the interaction of rigid lithospheric plates that move slowly over the underlying mantle.
What is the theory of Plate Tectonics?
Tectonic plates are located here.
Where is the lithosphere?
He established the theory of continental drift.
who is Alfred Wegener?
Two types of crust
What are continental and oceanic
Plates in Europe
What is the European Plate?
The lithosphere is broken up into
What are Tectonic Plates?
A subduction zone is what kind of plate boundary
What is a convergent boundary?
Type of heat transfer that occurs in the mantle.
What are convection currents?
3 types of plate boundaries
What is convergent, divergent, and transform?
Plate in Antarctica
What is Antarctician Plate?
Land (continental) plates and oceanic plates do not have the same type of these.
What are crusts?
When tectonics plates move.
What is an earthquake?
Supercontinent thought to be 1 large land mass that broke apart millions of years ago.
What is Pangea?
How many major plates are there
what is twenty?
Major Californian fault line.
What is the San Andreas fault?
Tectonic plates are able to move because the Earth's lithosphere has a higher strength than the underlying...
What is the asthenosphere?
The Atlantic ocean is growing by this much each year.
What is three centimeters?
We can measure how far plates move each year using this piece of equipment.
What is Satellite tracking?
The Mid Atlantic Ridge is where new ocean floor is created or made, what type of plate boundary is this?
What is a divergent plate boundary.
What is the New Madrid fault?
Plate Tectonic Movements are generated by the movement of hot molten material in the...
What is the mantle?
What causes Plate tectonics to move?
What is Magna flowing in the mantle of Earth?
We measure the strength of earthquakes using this device.
What is a seismograph?