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What layer of the earth makes up the oceanic and contienital plates?
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What layer of Earth makes up the plates and what layer causes them to move?
The layer of the Earth which makes up the plates is called the lithosphere. The lithosphere is composed of the continental and oceanic crusts along with the hard upper mantle.
What is composed of oceanic or continental crust and upper mantle?
The crust and upper mantle consist of hard rocks which form the moving plates of the outer layer of Earth.
What layer of the earth makes up theses plates?
tectonic plates
Which layer of the earth contains the tectonic plates?
The plates are part of the crust, the upper layer of the Earth. The plates are moved by currents in the upper mantle. The plates and flexible upper mantle are referred to collectively as the lithosphere and sit atop the mantle layer called the aesthenosphere.
What layer of earth makes up the techtonic plates?
Tectonic Plates float on the semi-molten mantle, and is part of the Earth's crust.
What layer of the earth makes the oceanic and continental plates?
friction of the gravity
What layer of Earth makes up the plates and what layer causes them to move?
The layer of the Earth which makes up the plates is called the lithosphere. The lithosphere is composed of the continental and oceanic crusts along with the hard upper mantle.
What is layer has the oceanic and continental plates?
The crust.
What is the oceanic layer of Earth made of?
oceanic crust
Which layer are the plates in?
the plates are apart of the crust,the upper layer of the earth
What layer of the earth has plates?
The lithosphere has plates.
What is composed of oceanic or continental crust and upper mantle?
The crust and upper mantle consist of hard rocks which form the moving plates of the outer layer of Earth.
What is the layer of the earth called?
I believe this would be the oceanic crust
What layer of earth makes up the plates?
the crust + lithosphere earth's crust: crust crust continental crust lithosphere crust continental and oceanic crust mantle asthenosphere mantle lower mantle mantle outer core outer core inner core inner core
Tectonic plates float on a layer of the earth called the?
The outer layer of the earth where the land masses are is called the crust
What layer of the earth makes up theses plates?
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.
