TEK 6.10CD

What are the huge pieces of lithosphere that slowly move on the asthenosphere and consist of the crust and the rigid, uppermost part of the mantle?

• Tectonic Plates

• Continental Crust

• Oceanic Crust

• North American Plate

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

The less dense part of the Earth's crust that forms large land masses.

• Continental Crust

• Oceanic Crust

• North American Plate

• Eurasian Plate

The more dense part of Earth's crust that underlies the oceans.

• Continental Crust

• Oceanic Crust

• North American Plate

• Eurasian Plate

The tectonic plate division of the lithosphere that includes the continental crust of Greenland, North America, Siberia, and the surrounding oceanic crust.

• North American Plate

• Eurasian Plate

• African Plate

• South American Plate

A tectonic plate division of the lithosphere that includes the continental crust of Europe, most of Asia, and the surrounding oceanic crust.

• North American Plate

• Eurasian Plate

• African Plate

• South American Plate

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

• North American Plate

• Eurasian Plate

• African Plate

• South American Plate

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

• North American Plate

• Eurasian Plate

• African Plate

• South American Plate

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

• Indo-Australian Plate

• Pacific Plate

• Antarctic Plate

• North American Plate

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

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

• Indo-Australian Plate

• Pacific Plate

• Antarctic Plate

• North American Plate

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

• Indo-Australian Plate

• Pacific Plate

• Antarctic Plate

• North American Plate