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The upper layer of earth consists of more than a dozen major pieces called?
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The outermost layer of the Earth is termed the lithosphere. Current theory holds that it is composed of tectonic plates, eight large plates and many smaller ones.
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The jigsaw puzzle of interlocking pieces that make up Earth's crust called what?
The Crust.
What are the giant pieces of earth outer layer where most earthquakes occur called?
tectonic plates
What is earth crust broken into pieces called?
Rocks Continents Fault blocks Tectonic plates
What is the geological theory that states that pieces of Earth's crust are in constant slow motion called?
Convection currents.
What do you call the large pieces of rocks on the Earth's crust?
If you mean the sections into which the crust is divided, those are called tectonic plates.
What is the pieces of the earth called?
Dirt.
What do we call all pieces of the stone that enter the Earth's atmosphere?
Stones that enter the Earth's atmosphere fro outer space are called meteors. If any pieces of them reach the ground, those pieces are called meteorites.
What is the outer layers of the earth's pieces called?
Tectonic plates
What are pieces of stone that reach the earth's atmosphere called?
Meteors
Earth's crust is broken into about thirty pieces called what?
They are called tectonic (or lithospheric) plates.
What are enormous moving pieces of the earth lithosphere called?
Tectonic plates
What are earth materials that cannot be broken into smaller pieces called?
minerals
Is it true that the earth's crust is made of many pieces that move?
Yes, that is true. The movement of the pieces of the Earth's crust is explained in a subject called plate tectonics.
Large brittle pieces of Earth Outer shell?
Plates are individual pieces of the lithosphere which are made of brittle rock.
How did the earth's natural satellite formed explain with pictures?
First due to gravitational force of earth a metroid fall on earth and after it was in several pieces and according to gravitational force of earth the pieces started revolving around the earth . After some years the pieces combined themselves and this combination was called moon
Is earth one solid piece or is it broken up int pieces?
It is broken up into pieces called tectonic plates
The earth system consists of four parts They are called?
Lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere
