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Crust a thin layer around earth
Mantle a later of rock between the earth;s crust and ccore
outer Core Liquid, metal layer surrounding Earth's inner core.
Inner Core The solid, metal center of Earth with high pressure and temperature
lithosphere Earth's rigid outer layer, made up of the crust and solid, upper mantle that is broken into plates that move on top of the asthenosphere.
Mid - ocean ridge
tectonic plates Pieces of Earth’s crust that move around as they float on top of the mantle.
conviction curents Heat-driven movements where hotter, less dense material rises and cooler, more dense material sinks.
atmosphere The layer of gas that surrounds Earth.
asthensphere Soft, slow-moving layer beneath Earth's crust.
earthquake The shaking of the Earth's surface caused by plates colliding, moving apart or sliding past each other.
volcano A mountain that erupts with lava and ash when plates collide or move apart.
mesosphere
core the central part of earth below the mantle
seismic waves a wave of energy that travels through earth and away from an earthquake in all directions
Geosphere The rock portion of Earth, made up of four different layers.
Hydrosphere All the water found on Earth.
Magma Melted rock beneath Earth's surface.
contiental drift the hopothesis that a single large landmass broke up into smaller landmasses to form the continents, witch then drifted to their present locastion: the movement of ccontinenets
magnetic reversal` `new sea-floor rock is continually formed at mid ocean ridges as this new rock forms,magnetic minerals such as magnetite, in the rock align with earth's pole
plate tectoniccs states that earths surface is made up of giant, moving slabs called tectonic plates.
thoery is a system of ideas that exsaplin many related observations about thee natural world.
convergent boundary the boundary between tectonic plates that are colliding
divergent boundry the boundary between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other
transform boundry the boundary between tectonic plates that are sliding past eachother horizontally
focus the location within earth along a fault at witch the first motion of an earthquake occurs
earthquakes
epicenter
tectonic plates boundry
fault
deformation
elastic rebound
S-waves
P-waves
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