Earth Layers and Plate Tectonics

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What is the outer core?

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Layer of liquid metal.

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What is the area around the Pacific Ocean where lots of earthquakes and volcanoes happen called?

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Ring of Fire.

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What type of boundaries do plates slide past each other?

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Transform boundaries.

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How are tsunamis generated?

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Generated from earthquakes.

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What are the two types of crust?

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Continental and oceanic.

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What is the lithosphere?

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The rigid outer layer of the Earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle.

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What is the asthenosphere?

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The semi-fluid layer beneath the lithosphere that allows tectonic plates to move.

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What is plate tectonics?

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The theory that explains the movement of the Earth's plates and the processes that occur at their boundaries.

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What happens at divergent boundaries?

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Tectonic plates move apart, creating new crust.

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What happens at convergent boundaries?

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Tectonic plates collide, leading to subduction or mountain formation.