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Chapter 4
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Inside the Earth Crust Mantle Core Lithosphere Asthenosphere Mesosphere Tectonic Plate
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The Crust 5-100km thick Thinnest layer Two types Continental Oceanic Made of…
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The Mantle Thicker Most of the mass Crust too thick Observations Ocean floor Made of…
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The Core Mantle to the core Made of… Not made of.. 1/3 of the Earth’s mass
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Five layers Inner Core Solid, dense Outer Core Liquid layer Mesosphere Strong Asthenosphere Plastic layer Lithosphere Tectonic plates
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Names of the plates Fit together Difference Ocean Continent Plates include… Like ice cubes
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Never drilled through the crust Seismic waves Seismographs
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Restless Continents Continental Drift Sea-floor Spreading
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Alfred Wegener Continental Drift Fit together Similar types of rocks and climatic conditions
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Observations Single, huge continent (supercontinent) 245 million years ago Laurasia and Gondwana (180 million years ago)
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The Theory of Plate Tectonics Plate tectonics Convergent Boundary Divergent Boundary Transform Boundary
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Plates Touch Three Types Convergent Boundary Divergent Boundary Transform Boundary How they move earthquakes
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Collide Kind of crust Three Types
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Separate New Sea Floor Mid-Ocean Ridges
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Slide Past Each other horizontally San Andreas Fault
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Plate Tectonic Theory Solid Rock Flows Changes in Density Thermal Energy Three possible causes
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Ridge Push Convection Slab Pull
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Type and Shape of the plate Interacts with Plates So Slow and Gradual GPS Radio Signals
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Deforming the Earth’s Crust Vocabulary Compression Tension Folding Fault Uplift Subsidence
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Spaghetti Bending Breaking Rock Layers Stress
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Compression Squeezed or Collided Convergent Mountain Ranges Tension Stretch Divergent Mid-Ocean Ridge
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Bending of Rock Layers Horizontal layers Types of Folds Anticlines Synclines Monocline Different sizes
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Stress is applied Fault Blocks Hanging wall and footwall Two Types Normal fault Reverse fault
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Normal fault Tension Pull Rocks Apart Reverse Faults Compression that pushes rocks together
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Look at the order of sedimentary rock layers Compare the two dark layers
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Third Type of Fault Opposing forces cause rock to break and move horizontally Move left or right San Andreas Fault
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Plates Collide Land features start as… Can become … Mountains exist Andes Mountains Compression or tension
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Folded Mountains Highest Convergent (collide) Appalachian Mtns. Fault-Block Mountains Tension Drop Down Tilted up Volcanic Mountains Major (Convergent) Sinks Islands Ring of Fire
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Vertical Movements Uplift Higher elevations May or May Not Be Deformed Subsidence Sinking No Deformation
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Uplifting of Depressed Rock Formation of Mtns. Without Deformation Rebound Weight removed Subsidence of Cooler Rock Hot More Space Less Volume (Subsides) Tectonic Letdown Stretched rift zones Stress
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