Plate Tectonics Vocab

The soft layer of the mantle on which the lithosphere floats

• Crust

• Mantle

• Mesosphere

• Asthenosphere

The thin and solid outermost layer of the earth above the mantle

• Mantle

• Core

• Crust

• Lithosphere

The largest division of geologic time

• Epoch

• Eon

• Era

• Eric

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Epoch is the _________ largest division of geologic time

• Second

• First

• Third

• Fourth

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

A major division of geological time that's usually divided into 2 or more periods.

• Epoch

• Epic

• Era

• Eon

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

A record of the geologic events and life forms in Earth's history

• Fossil Record

• Rock Cycle

• Geology Scale

• Geologic Time Scale

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

A dense sphere of solid iron and nickel at the center of the earth

• outer core

• Lithosphere

• inner core

• Asthenosphere

The rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle

• lithosphere

• asthenosphere

• mesosphere

• round sphere

The layer of rock between the earth's crust and core

• mantle

• lithosphere

• asthenosphere

• outer core

The strong, lower part of the mantle between the asthenosphere and the outer core

• Asthenosphere

• Outer core

• Lithosphere

• Mesosphere