Solar System formation
What is Earths Shape
What is a Sphere?
This is the thinnest layer of Earth.
What is the crust?
When plates move apart, this kind of boundary forms.
What is a divergent boundary?
As distance between objects increases, this force becomes weaker.
What is gravity?
This is Earth’s thickest layer.
What is the mantle?
This boundary causes uplift when two continental plates collide.
What is a convergent boundary?
The material left over after the Sun formed eventually became these.
What are the planets?
This layer is plasticlike and allows tectonic plates to move.
What is the asthenosphere?
When an oceanic plate sinks beneath another, this process occurs.
What is subduction?
This giant cloud of gas and dust is what our solar system formed from.
What is a solar nebula?
The solid outer shell of Earth (crust + upper mantle).
What is the lithosphere?
This type of movement occurs when two plates slide past each other.
What is transform?
What is Atmosphere?
This layer is solid due to extreme pressure, even though it is extremely hot.
What is the inner core?
This type of plate collision forms tall mountain ranges like the Himalayas.
Hint: It is a type of Convergence boundary.
What is continental–continental convergence?