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The outermost layer of the Earth
What is the Crust?
The type of crust that is thicker but less dense than the oceanic crust
What is continental crust?
The continental crust is thicker but less dense than this type of crust.
What is oceanic crust?
Inside the Earth, Solid, surrounded but the liquid outer core
What is the inner core?
Liquid layer of the Earth that surrounds the solid inner core
What is the outer core?
As the Earth rotates, the outer core circulates around the inner core which causes this to form
What is a magnetic field?
What is the mantle?
The thin layer of gas that surrounds the entire planet
What is the atmosphere?
The hypothesis that states that the continents were joined to make a super-continent called Pangaea
What is continental drift?
The super-continent where all of the continents were once joined
What is Pangaea?
The layered that consists of all of the crust as well as the upper, rigid part of the mantle.
What is the lithosphere?
The broken pieces of the Earth's lithosphere
What are tectonic plates?
The type of boundary that occurs when two tectonic plates divide away from each other
What is divergent?
The type of boundary that occurs where two tectonic plates collide with each other
What is convergent?
The type of boundary that occurs where two tectonic plates slide past each other
What is transform?
The process of new oceanic crust forming as magma rises toward the surface and solidifies
What is seafloor spreading?
When two plates collide and one plate moves under the other and sinks into the mantle
What is subduction?
What is compression?
Rock layers undergo stress when they are stretched apart at divergent boundaries
What is tension?
What is folding?
The upward bend in layers of rocks
What is anticline?
What is syncline?
Stress placed on rock layers when two tectonic plates pull apart from each other forms this type of mountains
What are fault-block mountains?
The surface along which rocks break and slide past each other
What is a fault?
Stress placed on rock layers when two tectonic plates push against each other cause this type of mountains
What are fold mountains?