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vocabulary7 L6
Question | Answer |
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composition | the minerals of a rock that contains to determine of the rock show |
continental crust | this tectonic plate not only consists of upper part of the mantle |
oceanic crust | are mainly made of the element oxgen,silcon,and aluminum |
mantle | is the layer of rock between the earth crust and core |
core | the central part of the earth below the mantle |
radiation | is the transfer of eneryg as electromagnetic waves |
conduction | is the transrfer of thermal energy through a material |
asthenoshere | is a plastic layer of the mantle on which pieces of the mantle in it |
lithoshere | is amde of 2 parts the crust and the rigid upper part of the mantle |
continental drift | is the hypothesis that ststes that continents ance from a single landmass |
sea-floor | is the process by which new organic lithoshere from magma |
convergent boundary | is the boundary between the tectionic plates that colliding |
divergent boundary | is the boundary between two tectonic plates moving away fron each other |
transform boundary | two tectonic plates side past each other horizontally |
tectonic plates | is the pieces of the lithosphere that moves around on top of the athenoshere |
pangaea | when some of the earlisest dinosaur ere roaming the earth |