Planet Earth Vocabulary CHP 21

The thin and solid outermost layer of Earth above the mantle.

• crust

• mantle

• magma

• fault

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

The layer of rock between Earth's crust and core.

• crust

• mantle

• rock

• igneous rock

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

The center part of the earth below the mantle.

• mantle

• crust

• core

• vent

The solid outer layer of earth that consists of the crust and rigid upper mantle.

• plate tectonics

• mantle

• crust

• lithosphere

The theory that explains how the outer parts of the Earth change through time, and that explains the relationship between continental drift, sea floor spreading, seismic activity, and volcanic activity.

• hydrophonics

• theory of drift

• plate tectonics

• pangea

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Liquid rock produced under Earth's surface.

• core

• lava

• glacier

• magma

The process by which one lithospheric plate moves beneath another as a result of tectonic forces.

• pangea

• convection

• subduction

• plate tectonics

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

A crack in Earth created when rocks on either side of a break move.

• fault

• subduction

• vent

• cavern

The area along a fault at which the first motion of an earthquake occurs.

• epicenter

• fault

• subduction zone

• focus

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

The point on Earth's surface directly above an earthquake's focus.

• fault line

• epicenter

• crack

• cavern

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2