Plate tectonics and Earths structure

Describe the crust

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Describe the mantle

Describe the Inner Core

Describe the outer core

Describe the lithosphere

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Describe the asthenosphere

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What does the theory of plate tectonics say?

• Earths continents were once together in a large mass

• The earth used to be air

• Cori has crazy hair

• There was a groilla man in Southeast Asia

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What are evidence to support plate tectonics?

• the same fossils and plants on two different lands.

• They seem to fit together as a puzzle piece

• Plates move

• Earthquakes

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What is convection?

• Making new land

• Like a lava lamp, colder air goes up, hotter air goes down.

• When a volcano erupts

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What are convection currents role in plate tectonics?

• The plates slowly move around the planet and hold the ocean and land

• Ummm volcanoes make new land?

• :)

• Science

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