Earth's Layers
Definitions
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100
How many large plates form the outer shell of Earth?
What is 7?
100
The mantle is...
What is layer between crust and core?
100
The pacific plate is where?
What is underlies the Pacific Ocean?
100
Compression is...
What is a squeezing force?
100
A pulling force is...
What is tension?
200
What lies directly beneath the crust?
What is the mantle?
200
Lithosphere is..
What is rigid outermost layer of Earth?
200
Sea-floor spreading is...
What is where a new lithosphere is created?
200
Tension is...
What is a pulling force?
200
A break in the Earth's crust...
What is a fault?
300
The upper mantle and crust make up what major tectonic feature of our planet?
What is the lithosphere?
300
Outer core is...
What is liquid layer of Earth's core?
300
What are the four driving motions behind plate motion?
What is convection, gravitational sliding, slab pull, ridge push?
300
Folding is...
What is the bending of rock layers?
300
Theory that continents drift apart..
What is continental drift?
400
What lies directly beneath the lithosphere and is around 200 km thick?
What is the asthenosphere?
400
What's the theory that all continents were once together?
What is continental drift?
400
Fault is...
What is a break in the Earth's crust?
400
Outermost layer of Earth..
What is crust?
500
On average how thick is oceanic crust?
What is 7 km?
500
Continental drift is...
What is theory that continents drifted apart?
500
A convergent boundary is...
What is a boundary between two colliding plates?
500
A transform boundary is...
What is boundary between two plates that slide past each other?
500
The bending of rock layers...
What is folding?
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