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What is broken into sections called plates which float on top of the crust?
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Which layer of the earth is broken into seprate sections called plates?
This layer is the crust, which is the outermost layer of the earth's surface.
What are large sections of earth's crust and upper mantle called?
Lithospheric plates.
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.
Earthquakes happen when these sections of Earth's crust move?
earthquakes happen when these sections of earths crust move
What is earth crust broken into pieces called?
Rocks Continents Fault blocks Tectonic plates
Earth's crust and upper mantle are broken into sections called?
Earth's crust and upper mantle are broken into sections called tectonic plates. These plates float on the semi-fluid asthenosphere below them and interact with each other at plate boundaries, leading to geological processes like earthquakes and volcanic activity.
What is the Earth's crust broken into large pieces called?
They are called plates!
Which layer of the earth is broken into separate sections called plates?
The crust.
Earths lithosphere is broken into separate sections called?
It is broken into tectonic plates. Two types are the Continental Crust and the Oceanic Crust.
What sections of Earth's crust ad upper mantle?
That would be the lithosphere. This is broken into sections known as lithospheric (or tectonic) plates.
Which layer of the earth is broken into seprate sections called plates?
This layer is the crust, which is the outermost layer of the earth's surface.
Is the eaarths crust broken into sections that are called bowls?
oceanic plates (plates of land that is submerged) and continental plates (the land masses above the surface of the ocean)
What are the 20 sections of the earth called?
The 20 sections of the earth's crust is called plates
What are large sections of the Earth's crust called?
Plates
Is earth's surface all one piece?
The earth's crust is broken into sections called tectonic plates, which slowly move around.
What are huge sections of the Earth's crust called?
TecTonic plates
The earths crust is made of rock sections called?
Continental plates.
