Plate Tectonics Vocabulary
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| Continental Crust | Crust not as dense as oceanic crust.
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| Oceanic Crust | Crust in the Ocean.
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| Mantle | Layer of rock between the earth's crust and core.
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| Inner Core | Solid dense center of the earth. (Hottest Layer)
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| Outer Core | Liquid core that is formed around the Inner Core.
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| Lithosphere | The solid outer layer of the earth that consists of the ridged part of the mantle.
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| Lithospheric Plates | Block of Lithosphere that consists of the crust and outer most layer of mantle that moves.
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| Asthenosphere | A zone in the upper mantle of the earth, consisting of hot, plastic rock, that lies underneath the solid lithosphere.
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| Plate Boundaries | When tectonic plates touch.
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| Continental Drift | When Earth was one piece and pieces of the crust were torn apart to make continents today. :)
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| Convection Currents | Causes oceanic lithosphere to move sideways from each other.
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| Plate Tectonics | Plate Tectonics is a scientific theory describing the large-scale motion of seven large plates and the movements of a larger number of smaller plates of the Earth's lithosphere, since tectonic processes began on Earth between 3 and 3.5 billion years ago.
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| Convergent Boundary | The boundary formed by the collision of 2 plates.
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| Divergent Boundary | Boundary when 2 plates move away from each other.
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| Transform Boundary | When 2 plates are grinding against each other.
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