6.10 CD Review: Tectonic Plates

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Huge pieces of lithosphere that slowly move on the asthenosphere and consist of the crust and the rigid, uppermost part of the mantle are called...

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tectonic plates

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A tectonic plate that includes the continental crust of Greenland, North America, Siberia, and the surrounding oceanic crust is the...

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North American Plate

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Division of lithosphere including most of the land masses of Europe and Asia is the...

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Eurasian Plate

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A tectonic plate that includes the continental crust of Africa and the surrounding oceanic crust is the...

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African Plate

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A tectonic plate that includes the continental crust of South America and the oceanic crust extending to the Mid-Atlantic ridge is the...

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South American Plate

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A tectonic plate that includes the continental crust of India and Australia and the surrounding oceanic crust is the...

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Indo-Australian Plate

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A tectonic plate that is composed entirely of oceanic crust and lies beneath the Pacific Ocean is the...

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Pacific Plate

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A tectonic plate that includes the continental crust of Antarctica and the surrounding oceanic crust is the...

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Antarctic Plate

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Density is the amount of matter in a given space or volume; the oceanic crust is thinner, but denser, than continental crust. This sentence describes...

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the density of plates

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Crust can be either oceanic, which is thin and dense, or continental, which is thick and less dense; both are known as crust rock material. True or False?

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True