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Tectonic plates slide past each other

What is a transform boundary?

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This is the solid layer of the Earth below the crust.
What is the Mantle?
100

Where tectonic plates pull apart, ________ forms.

What are rift valleys?

100

Example of a direct piece of evidence used to study the interior of the Earth.

What is rock samples?

100

The force pushing on a surface or area. 

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The inner core is solid due to ______.

What is pressure?

200

When two continental plates with similar densities collide, __________ forms.

What are mountains?

200
This is the part of the mantle that is solid but almost like hot plastic.
What is the Asthenosphere?
200
These are what the crust is made of.
What are tectonic plates?
200

Example of an indirect piece of evidence used to study the interior of the Earth.

What is seismic waves?

200

The layer that includes the crust and upper mantle.

What is Lithosphere?

300
It is the most dense part of the Earth.
What is the inner core?
300
The center of the Earth that is composed mostly of nickel and iron.
What is the core?
300
This is made of mostly of basalt.
What is the ocean floor?
300

Compression wave

What is p-wave?

300
This layer causes Earth's magnetic field.

What is the outer core?

400

These are produced by Earthquakes.

What is a seismic wave?

400
The pressure of gravity and layers on top of it.
What causes the Earth's core to be so dense?
400

Type of wave that can travel through the inner and outer core

What is a p-wave?

400

Shear or transverse wave

What is s-wave?

400

Past plate motions can be reconstructed by using ______, or information gathered from remnant magnetic fields that were frozen into the structure of iron-rich minerals when rock formed

What is paleomagnetic data?