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What is the order of the layers of the Earth? |
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Crust,lithospher,athnosphere,lower mantle,outer core,inner core |
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What did Wegener name the earth pre split? |
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heat that is transfered through a substance |
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What evidence has been used to support the split of the continents? |
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Discribe the 3 types of plate boundries. |
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Transform-the plates rub against each other and creat earthquakes dIvergent-the plates go away from each other and creat a valley Convergent-the plates collide or come together and then creat a mountain or valcanoe |
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a valley formed by divergent boundries |
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the rock that makes up majority of the ocean crust |
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what are the characteristics of Earths crust, mantle, and core? |
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crust-hard, thin, broken into pieces(plates) Mantle-hard, lowerpart plastic like core- inner liquid outer solid iron and nickle |
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