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Plates
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like the skin on a peach but to the Earth
What is Crust?
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outermost layer
What is the crust?
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The inner core is pressed into a solid by...
What is the weight of all the layers around it?
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number of major plates in the lithosphere
What is seven?
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sandwich of the three major layers
What is the mantle? M-A-N-T-L-E
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made of extremely hot liquid metals
What is the outer core?
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Directly beneath the crust
What is the mantle?
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The largest plate
What is the Pacific plate?
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Three movements of a plate
What is splitting along new lines, combing with another plate, or sliding under another plate?
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Property meaning it can flow
What is plasticity? P-L-A-S-T-I-C-I-T-Y
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Hot enough to melt liquid, but still a solid
What is the inner core?
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Putty is used to show how this works
What is plasticity?
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The plates float on a layer of weak, easily deformed rock of the...
What is the asthenosphere?
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Theory used to explain plate movements
What is plate tectonics? P-L-A-T-E T-E-C-T-O-N-I-C-S
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Includes all of the crust and part of the upper mantle
What is the lithosphere?
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The theory scientists use to explain movements
What is plate tectonics?
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used to make hypothesis's about the inside of the earth
What is an earthquake?
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Named for the continents or oceans they carry
What is major plates?
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Includes all of the crust and part of the upper mantle
What is the lithosphere? L-I-T-H-O-S-P-H-E-R-E
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Weak easily deformed rock in the upper mantle
What is the asthenosphere?
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The asthenosphere has a property called..
what is plasticity?
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Earths surface is changed by
What is constant processes of erosion and deposition?
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The largest plate covering what of the Earth's surface
What is the Pacific plate, one fifth of the earths surface?
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Zone in the upper mantle of weak, easily deformed rock
What is the asthenosphere? A-S-T-H-E-N-O-S-P-H-E-R-E