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Q: What is the thinner layer of the earth's lithosphere that forms surface under the ocean's basins?
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What are Mountains and basins?

A mountain is a natural, large elevation in the Earths surface. A basin is a depression in the Earths surface containing water.


What is the soil and rocks forming the upper layers of the earths surface?

The lithosphere.


How many km is the earths lithosphere from the earths surface?

The Earth's lithosphere can vary in depth from 5 km at the ocean ridges to 200 km underneath mountain ranges.


What does lithosphere mean in science terms?

lithosphere refers to the rocks of the earths surface and upper mantle or depth of plates. hope that helped


Rigid layer of earths surface made up of the crust and a part of the upper mantle?

lithosphere


What is the order starting from the surface of earths layers?

lithosphere, asthenosphere, mesosphere, outer core, inner core


What is the rigid layer of the earths surface that is made up of the crust and a part of the upper mantle?

It's called the lithosphere.


What is a rigid layer of the earths surface made up of the crust and a part of the upper mantle?

the Lithosphere or Lithospheric Plates


What is the order of the earths layers from the center to the surface?

crust, lithosphere,asthenosphere,lowermantle, outer core, inner core


If the lithosphere moved less how would the surface of the earths be affected?

the pushed and pull of tectonic forces would decrease.


What is the rigid layer of earths surface made up of the crust and the part of the upper mantle?

the Lithosphere or Lithospheric Plates


What makes up a typical plate that moves across earths surface?

a section of both continental and oceanic lithosphere