Description

Vibrations that move rock side to side and can only travel through solids.
An area of Earth's surface where no direct seismic waves from a particular Earthquake can be detected.
The layer of Earth that contains silicate materials with more dense elements. It sits between the crust and the core.
Earth's outermost layer made up of primarily low-density materials called silicates.
The central part of Earth below the mantle, containing very dense elements such as iron and nickel.
The pulling of a tectonic plate as its edge subducts deep into the mantle.
A layer of molten iron and nickel that surrounds the inner core of Earth.
A dense sphere of solid iron and nickel at the center of the Earth.
The soft layer of the mantle on which the lithosphere floats.
The part of Earth's mantle that sits below the asthenosphere and the lithosphere but above the outer core.
The hypothesis that today's continents were once part of a single landmass and drifted to their present-day location.
Solid chunks of mantle rock that makes it to Earth's surface during a volcanic eruption.
The process by which oceanic crust sinks beneath a deep ocean trench and back into the mantle at a convergent plate boundary.
The movement of fluid in the mantle caused by differences in density and temperature that transfers heat from one part of the fluid to another.
The breakdown of unstable materials into stable materials. This process helps to heat the Earth.
Process where gravity pulls high-density materials toward Earth's center and pushes low-density materials towards the surface.
When the forces of gravity move a plate downward away from the ridge.
States that Earth's lithosphere is broken into huge, moving slabs of rock driven by motions in the mantle.
Vibrations that travel through Earth's carrying the energy released during an Earthquake
The lithosphere, asthenosphere, mesophere, outer core, and the inner core

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