Earth Science Stuff

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What layer of the Earth makes up the asthenosphere?

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Upper part of the mantle.

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Tectonic plates are made up of continental crust and ________ crust.

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Oceanic.

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What is the thickest layer of the Earth?

Back

The mantle.

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What forms when two oceanic plates collide?

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Ocean trenches.

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What describes the outer core?

Back

Liquid.

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What is the Earth's crust?

Back

The outermost layer of the Earth.

Front

What is the mantle?

Back

The layer between the crust and the outer core.

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What is the inner core?

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The solid innermost layer of the Earth.

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What is a tectonic plate?

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A massive slab of solid rock that makes up the Earth's lithosphere.

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What is subduction?

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The process where one tectonic plate moves under another.