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What layer flows in plastic and allows lithosphere plates to glide on earths surface?
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What is the soil and rocks forming the upper layers of the earths surface?
The lithosphere.
What makes up a typical plate that moves across the earths surface?
a section of both continental and oceanic lithosphere
What is rigid layer of earths surface made up of the crust and a part of the upper mantle?
the Lithosphere or Lithospheric Plates
Where in the earths layers are the convection currents found?
Lithosphere
A tectonic plate is a massive portion of the earths what?
lithosphere
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 weaker hotter zone beneath the lithosphere that allows for motion of earths rigid outer shell?
The asthenosphere
What is the order starting from the surface of earths layers?
lithosphere, asthenosphere, mesosphere, outer core, inner core
What is the crust and the upper mantle are called?
The crust and uppermost hard rocky mantle, together, is known as the lithosphere, which is above the plastic-like upper mantle area known as the asthenosphere.
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
