Plate Tectonics A

A rigid and brittle layer made up of the uppermost part of the mantle and the crust.

• Lithosphere

• Hydrosphere

• Asthenosphere

• Atmosphere

All the water at and near the surface of the earth, 97% of which is in oceans

• Lithosphere

• Hydrosphere

• Asthenosphere

• Atmosphere

the upper layer of the earth's mantle, below the lithosphere, in which there is relatively low resistance to plastic flow and convection is thought to occur.

• Lithosphere

• Hydrosphere

• Asthenosphere

• Atmosphere

earth's outermost layer of rock made up of both continental crust and oceanic crust

• Mantle

• Earth's Crust

• Asthenosphere

• Hydrosphere

State that Earth's lithosphere is broken into huge, moving slabs of rock driven by motions in the mantle

• Theory of Evolution

• Theory of Continental Drift

• Theory of Plate Tectonics

• Law of Conservation of Mass

Processes by which rock, sand, and soil are broken down and carried away (i.e. weathering, glaciation)

• Deposition

• Plate Tectonics

• Fossil record

• Erosion

process of cracking that occurs when the folded land cannot be bent any further

• Faulting

• Folding

• Erosion

• Deposition

the bending of rock layers due to stress in the Earth's crust (compression)

• Faulting

• Folding

• Erosion

• Deposition

Any activity that includes the movement of magma toward or onto Earth's surface

• Erosion

• Faulting

• Folding

• Volcanism

the process by which new oceanic lithosphere forms as magma rises toward the surface and solidifies; occurs during divergent boundaries

• Sea Floor Spreading

• Volcanic Arcs

• Mountain Ranges

• Fault lines