Flash cards science

The outer layer of earth

Crust
The layer between the core and the crust

Mantle
The deepest layer of earth

Core
The outer layer above the crust

Lithosphere
A soft layer that tectonic plates float on

Asthenosphere
The lowest part of the mantle

Mesosphere
Plates that are on top of the asthenosphere

Tectonic plates
A hypothesis showing the earth was once all one big piece

Continental drift
A theory of tectonic plates

Plate tectonic
When two plates collide

Convert boundary
When two plates separate

Divergentboundary
A prosess in which the sea floor is spreading

Sea-floor spreading
When two plates pase each other

Transform boundary
Stress when an object is squeezed

Compression
Stress that occurs when forces act to stretch an object

Tension
When rocks bend

Folding
The rising of rocks

Uplift
Sinking of rocks

Subsidence
A break in a body of rock

Fault

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