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This is known as the asthenosphere. It lies below the lithosphere (composed of the upper mantle and crust).
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The zone below the lithosphere it is more plastic than the lithosphere so it is easier to bend and move?
The zone below the lithosphere is the mantle. Convection currents occur here because of the magnetism in the Earth. It is somewhat plastic like.
What is the composition of the athenosphere?
The Athenosophere is the layer below the lithosphere in the mantle. It can bend like plastic, but if you kicked it, you would stub your toe.
Area where an ocean plate descends into the upper mantle?
Subduction Zone
What is the hot weak zone found within the upper mantle?
the asthenosphere.
What is the rigid zone above the asthenosphere that includes the crust and upper mantle?
The lithosphere
What does the word asthenospere mean?
a subdivision of the upper mantle situated below the lithosphere ; a zone of plastic, easily deformed rock.
Is lithoshpere a zone in the upper mantle deformed by plastic flowage?
no the asthenospher is
The zone below the lithosphere it is more plastic than the lithosphere so it is easier to bend and move?
The zone below the lithosphere is the mantle. Convection currents occur here because of the magnetism in the Earth. It is somewhat plastic like.
What is the plastic like zone in the mantle?
asthenosphere
What is the composition of the athenosphere?
The Athenosophere is the layer below the lithosphere in the mantle. It can bend like plastic, but if you kicked it, you would stub your toe.
Does the transition zone separate the lower mantle from the upper mantle?
most likey
Earth's crust and its upper mantle is called?
The lithosphere is the crust Moho and upper mantle. It floats on a plasticity zone called the asthenosphere.
Area where an ocean plate descends into the upper mantle?
Subduction Zone
What is the hot weak zone found within the upper mantle?
the asthenosphere.
What is the rigid zone above the asthenosphere that includes the crust and upper mantle?
The lithosphere
What is another name for plastic zone?
The plastic zone is also called the asthenosphere,because in the solid bottom part of the mantle, the temperature is sufficient to make the rock plastic, meaning, it flows.
What do you call the plastic zone between the mantle and the crust?
Mohorovicic discontinuity (or simply Moho)
