Science Plate Tectonics

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Outer most layer of the Earth that can be divided into two types: continental and oceanic. VOCAB

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Crust

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Layer of the Earth that contains the crust and uppermost part of the mantle. VOCAB

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Lithosphere

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soft plastic like layer of the Earth that the Lithosphere floats upon. VOCAB

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Asthenosphere

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Layer of the Earth that is between the crust and the core that can be broken into upper and lower. VOCAB

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Mantle

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layer of molton iron and nickel that surrounds the inner core.
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Outer Core

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Solid iron and nickel sphere at the center of the Earth VOCAB

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Inner core

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Wegners hypothesis that all continets were once connected in a single large landmass that broke apart and drifted slowly to thier current posistions VOCAB

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Continental Drift

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name of the single large landmass when all the continets were joined together. VOCAB

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Pangaea

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Hess's Theory that magma under the Earth's crust is forced up toward the surface at the Mid ocean ridges, forming new seafloor. VOCAB

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Seafloor Spreading

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Large sections of the Earth's crust and upper mantle that move around on the asthenosphere.

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Plate

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Theory that the Earth's crust and upper mantel are broken into plates that move around on a layer of Earth's Mantle. VOCAB

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Plate Tectonics

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The cycle of Heating, Rising, Cooling, and sinking that is thought to cause Earth's plates to move around on the ashenosphere. VOCAB

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Convection Currents

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Areas where there is movement of plates.VOCAB

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Plate Boundaries

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Area where Earth's Plates are Moving or Pushing together.VOCAB

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Divergent Boundaries

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Are where Earth's plates are moving or pushing together.VOCAB

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Convergent Boundaries

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Area Where Earth's plates are sliding past Each other.VOCAB

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Transform Boundaries

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Earth's Crust and upper Mantle are broken into sections called
A. Lava B. Plates

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Lava

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The Colision of one continental plate with another may produce.
A. Ocean B. Mountains

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Mountains

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New Ocean Crust is formed at a
A. rift valley B. Mid Ocean Ridge

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Mid Ocean Ridge

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A rift valley can form where two Continental plates are
A. Moving Apart B. Coliding

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Moving Apart

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Where Earth's plates
move, They may slide alongside one another, pull apart or
A. Colide B. Divide

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Colide

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Area where an Oceanic plate goes down into the Mantle.

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Subduction Zone

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Where rocks on Oppisite sides of A fault move in a Opposite Directions or in the Same Direction at Different rates

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Strike Slip Faults

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1 Of the Earth

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Crust

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2 Of the Earth

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Mantle

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3 Of the Earth

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Core

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4 Of the Earth in The Middle?

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Inner Core

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What lays under the Oceans?

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Oceanic Crust

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Top part of the Mantle is a Soft layer Called?

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Continental Crust

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Outer core??

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So hot Becomes Liquid

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Where Earth's plates
move, They may slide alongside one another, pull apart or
A. Colide B. Divide

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Colide

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Area where an Oceanic plate goes down into the Mantle.

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Subduction Zone

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Where rocks on Oppisite sides of A fault move in a Opposite Directions or in the Same Direction at Different rates

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Strike Slip Faults

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1 Of the Earth

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Crust

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2 Of the Earth

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Mantle

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3 Of the Earth

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Core

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What lays under the Oceans?

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Oceanic Crust

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Top part of the Mantle is a Soft layer Called?

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Continental Crust

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Outer core??

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So hot Becomes Liquid