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 “Weak sphere”  Layer that is involved in mantle convection.

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2  “Weak sphere”  Layer that is involved in mantle convection

3  Asthenosphere

4  Line where it is hot enough below to flow and is cool and rigid above

5  Boundary between lithosphere and asthenosphere

6  Thick, less dense, and older

7  Continental crust

8  Boundary where plates are moving toward one another

9  Convergent Boundary

10  Example of a transform boundary

11  San Andreas Fault

12  Collision zone where subduction is active, earthquakes and volcanoes are possible

13  Subduction  Continent-Oceanic collision

14  Large forces build up within the lithosphere, forces become greater than the strength of the rock thus fracturing.

15  Fault

16  A place where molten rock, solid fragments and gases erupt at the Earth’s surface

17  Volcanoes

18  Mild Eruption

19  Magma with low gas content

20  Magma pockets in the mantle that do not move. Ocean plates move. Occur far from plate boundaries.

21  Hot spot volcano

22  Formed when 2 continental crusts collided. Still forming. No subduction.

23  Himalayan mountains

24  Rigid outer portion of the Earth. Composed of crust and the outer part of the mantle.

25  Lithosphere

26  Thin, more dense, and younger.

27  Oceanic crust

28  Boundary where plates are moving away from each other

29  Divergent Boundary

30  Boundary where plates are sliding past one another (very slow).

31  Transform Boundary

32  Area where plates are consumed (melted and recycled); one plate dives down underneath the other into the mantle.

33  Subduction

34  Collision zone where there is no subduction and mountains are formed.

35  Continent-continent collision

36  Fracture in the Earth’s surface

37  Fault

38  Explosive eruption

39  Magma with high gas content

40  Volcanic rock found along the Mid-Ocean Ridges

41  Basalt

42  Pacific Ocean rimmed with subduction zones. Earthquakes and volcanoes are common.

43  Ring of fire

44  A continuous mountain range extending throughout the ocean. It is seismically active and often has a rift valley. Divergent plate boundaries. Site of sea-floor spreading.

45  Mid-ocean ridge


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