Lithosphere Vocabulary

The prehistoric super-continent where all landmasses were once connected.

• Earth

• Pangea

• Volcano

• San Andreas

Layer of Earth consisting of crust and rigid upper mantle.

• Sedimentary

• Divergent

• Lithosphere

• Mesosphere

Rocks that form from compaction and cementation of sediments.

• Metamorphic

• Igneous

• Weathering

• Sedimentary

Bands present on high grade metamorphic rock where layers were flattened.

• Foliation

• Asthenosphere

• Lithosphere

• Bottom of volcano

Plates moving together have this kind of boundary.

• Divergent

• Convergent

• Erosion

• Metamorphic

A rock that comes from pre-existing rock and is changed through heat and pressure.

• Sedimentary

• Igneous

• Metamorphic

• Gravel

Pieces of weathered rock.

• Pangea

• Moho

• Sediment

• Volcano

Rocks that form from Magma.

• Intrusive Igneous

• Sediment

• Metamorphic

• Convergent

Boundary where two plates slide past one another.

• Convergent Boundary

• Transform Boundary

• Divergent Boundary

• Billy Bob Boundary

Circular heat motion in the Earth's middle layer, driving the rock cycle and plate tectonics.

• Foliation

• Completion

• Volcanic Island Arc

• Mantle Convection