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Plate Tectonic

Horizontales
Forms when 2 (crustal) lithospheric plates slide past each other.
What drives tectonic plates to move?
Outer most layer of the Earth
The outer layer of the Earth's core, made of liquid nickel and iron.
Plates are sliding beside each other in opposite direction.
Forms when 2 (crustal) lithospheric plates come together.
The sphere of solid nickel and iron at the center of the Earth.
Continent plates are lifted and a mountain range is created
Scientist that came up with the theory of continental drift.
The outer shell of earth that extends to a depth of 100 km.
The partially melted layer of the mantle that underlies the lithosphere.
The theory that all continents are fragments of Pangaea now drifting apart.
Youngest rocks of ocean floor are at diverging boundaries, moving outward.
Verticales
All the continents were together.
Forms when 2 (crustal) lithospheric plates move apart.
Theory of the formation and movement of the plates that cover the earth's surface.
One plate dives under forming a deep oceanic trench.
A number of rigid, but moving, pieces of the earth's surface
When 2 continental plates come together and produce a ____.
The solid layer of the Earth between the crust and the core, made of silicates.