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Vocab Week 14 17-18
Question | Answer |
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the rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle | Lithosphere |
the upper layer of the earth's mantle, below the lithosphere, where convection is thought to occur. | Asthenosphere |
an elastic wave in the earth produced by an earthquake | Seismic Wave |
Theory that Earth’s outer layer is made up of large, moving pieces called plates | Tectonic Plate Theory |
a hypothetical supercontinent that included all current land masses, believed to have been in existence before the continents broke apart | Pangaea |
A person who studies what the Earth is made of and how it was formed | Geologist |
German scientist who developed the theory of continental drift | Alfred Wegner |
the locations where two tectonic plates interact | Plate Boundaries |