Earth's Interior
Interaction
Definitions
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What is the asthenosphere's material like ?
liquid rock or liquid metal
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what are 3 ways plates can interact ?
divergent boundaries , convergent boundaries and transform boundaries
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What is the name of when all the continent's were all together ?
pangea
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What is the texture of the asthenosphere ?
soft and weak liquidly rock
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What is the name of the boundary that the San Andrea's fault goes under ?
What is a Transform Boundary
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What is the connection between the asthenosphere and lithosphere ?
lithosphere floats on top of the asthenosphere
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What are colliding plates called ?
convergent boundaries
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What is sea-floor spreading ?
new forms of oceanic crust
200
what is the thickest layer in the earth's crust ?
cc crust
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What Effect does an oceanic crust vs. oceanic crust have ?
What are Volcanic Island
300
What is the earth's core underneath ?
mantle or lower mantle
300
What is a subduction zone
when a dense plate slides under the more denser plate .
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What boundary is a volcanic island from ?
convergent : subduction
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What happened when transform boundaries occur ?
earthquakes
300
What is a plate (science version) ?
A section of the earth that move on top of the mantle like rafts .
400
How thick is the earth's crust ?
15 km
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What happens when two continental plates collide ?
come together and push up word and result in Mountains or folding
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What boundary effect are the Himalayas mountains from ?
collision - convergent
400
When oceanic plates hit or smash against continental crust why do coastal volcanoes occur?
When oceanic plates hit or smash against continental crust
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What are continental plates ?
Plates below the continents
500
How thick is the earth's core ?
5,100 km - 6,400kmHow
500
What is a example of a transform boundary in America ?
San Andrea's fault
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What boundary is rift valley from?
divergent
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Why do volcanoes from around subduction zones ?
Crust sinks in asthenosphere which makes bubbles in the water and creates volcanoes
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What two section of the earth's interior make up a lithosphere ?
upper mantle and Earths crust
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