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Question | Answer |
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Lithosphere | Made of the crust and mantle,100 km thick. |
Atmosphere | The gases in the air. |
Oceanic Crust | The bottom of the ocean floor. |
Continental Drift | Wegeners hypothesis that all continents were once one landmass. |
Convection | Convection in Earths mantle that transfers heat. |
Mantle | The thickest layer of the Earth. |
Crust | Thin outter most layer. |
Core | The center of the Earth. |
Asthenosphere | The crust and mantle of the Earth. |
Latitude | Lines that run West and East. |
Longitude | Lines that run North and South. |
Tectonic Plates | Plates that move along the mantle. |
Subduction | Is the heat that occur when heat from the core causes changes in the density in the magma. |
Magma | Molten rock in the Earth. |
Divergent | Is when plates repel causing a line of volcanoes to erupt. |
Convergent | Is when plates come together forming volcanoes. |
Subduction | Is when one plate is pushed under another plate. |
Concencus | When people agree or disagree on whats being said. |
Density | Measurable physical property that can be found by dividing the mass by volume. |