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UNIT TITLE: Plate Tectonics and Layers of the Earth ESSENTIAL VOCABULARY VOCABULARY TERM Inner core Outer core mantle Crust Lithosphere Asthenosphere Mesophere Tectonic plate Continental drift Seafloor spreading Plate tectonics Convergent boundary Divergent boundary Transverse boundary Compression Tension folding Fault CLUES Very center solid iron Around inner core liquid iron/nickel Layer between crust and core Thin solid outmost layer of the Earth Made of the crust and upper rigid mantle Hot solid flowing rock on which the plates move Strong lower mantle just above the core Pieces of lithosphere that move Theory that continental have changed locations over time New oceanic lithosphere forms when magma rises through cracks in the seafloor and solidifies pushing old seafloor toward the plate edges Theory that explains how large pieces of the lithosphere move and change shape 2 lithospheric plates collide (hit together) 2 lithospheric plates pull apart 2 lithospheric plates slide past each other Stress and pressure caused by squeezing together Stress and pressure caused by pulling apart Stress causing rock layers to bend The surface along which rocks break and slide past each other
