M7: Deformation of the Crust Flashcards
1
Q
Movement of the earth’s lithosphere on the underlying athnenosphere
A
Tectonic Plates
2
Q
What are the layers of the earth?
A
Inner Core, Outer Core, Mantle, Lower Crust, and Upper Crust
3
Q
What do you call the super continent?
A
Pangea
4
Q
Shortening and Thickening of rocks vertically
A
Compression Forces
5
Q
Causes the rocks to thin and lengthen
A
Tensional Forces
6
Q
Plates that slide past each other
A
Shearing
7
Q
Bending, tilting, and breaking of the earth’s crust
A
Deformation
8
Q
Force that causes pressure in the rocks of the curst
A
Crust
9
Q
Plates that moves away from each other
A
Divergent
10
Q
Plates that moves toward each other
A
Convergent
11
Q
Plates that slides towards each other either same direction or not
A
Transfer
