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Plate Tectonics

Name ______________________________
Date ______________________________
Class ____
Horizontales
The thinner, more dense type of crust
Separate sections of the lithosphere; broken crust
The place where two plates slip past each other in opposite directions
Vibrations from earthquakes, gives us indirect information about Earth's interior
These happen in the inner core and upper mantle
Deep underwater canyons where the oceanic crust bends downwards toward the mantle
Because of the moving liquid metal inside the Earth, we have _______.
The solid uppermost part of the mantle and the crust together
Verticales
The liquid layer of the Earth
The place where two plates come together
A break in Earth's crust
The supercontinent that was formed when all the continents were together
The direct evidence that tells us information about Earth's interior (2 words)
The place where two plates move apart
Heat transfer by the movement of fluids (liquid or gas)
The soft, bendable layer in the mantle
When ocean floor sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantle
An undersea mountain chain where new ocean floor is produced
Pressure and temperature ______ as you go towards the center of the Earth
The theory that states pieces of Earth's lithosphere are in slow, constant motion, driven by convection currents in the mantle
The thicker, less dense type of crust
Hot stuff rises because it is _______. (2 words)