Earth's crust Flashcards
What is each piece of the crust called?
The tetonic plates
What is the border between the crust’s called?
A plate boundary
How is the crust’s thinnest layer’s ground like?
Very unstable
The plates are either…
pushing towards each other pt splitting and moving apart at the plate boundaries
What do you call the cracks that appear in the crust at the plate boundaries?
A fault
What happens in the boundaries?
Volcanoes and earthquakes occur
Which ocean has the most active and disastrous boundary?
The Pacific Ocean
What is that very plate called?
The ring of fire
What’s the crust?
The thinnest layer (sits on top of the mantle
What’s The mantle?
The mostly semi - solid material
What’s the core?
The inner core that is under extreme pressure, its made out of solid material
What is the MAGMA?
The molten rock
What is the molten rock?
the part beneath the crust is the molten rock
What the outer core?
A liquid metal
What is the temperature of the mantle?
4000 degrees
