Plate Techtonics Flashcards

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The most inner part of the earth

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Core

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2
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Makes up the continents

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Crust

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3
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Made up of a crust

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Lithosphere

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4
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Layer below the crust

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Mantle

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5
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Area where the plates meet

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Plate boundary

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6
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A theory

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Play tectonics

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7
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What are the layers of earth?

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Crust upper mantle lower mantle outer core inner core

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8
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Explain Alfred weggners therey of contentental drift and what are the 5 reasons why

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He thought that the contents where all together and it was called Pangea and rock layer animal fossils convection seafloor spreading climate chage

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9
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What are convection currents

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Heat cycles that happen in the air

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10
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What are the 3 main boundary’s diverg

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Divergent convergent and transform divergent moves two boundary’s away from earth other convergent collide transform is when they run against earth other

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11
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What are the effects of the plate shift

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Mountains form

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12
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What happens when a plate drops beneath one anothr

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Earthquakes

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13
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What is lava and maga

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Lava is out of the volaxano and magma is in the volcano

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