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What is composed of the continents and the oceans floor?
Earth's crust is composed of the continents and the ocean floor.
Does sea-floor spreading occur in oceans only?
It occurs in the oceanic crust!!!
What is the moving portion of earths crust and upper mantle?
a moving portion of earths crust and upper mantle is called a ridge that's when the ocean floor has underwater volcano that erupts
Continents and the ocean floor are part of earths solid rocky surface called?
crust
What is the definition for earth's crust?
the outer layer of earth ; includes continents,oceans and ocean floor
The oceans crust is composed of what?
The oceanic crust composed of sima, mafic rocks and basalt. This is the top layer of the lithosphere which is found in the ocean floor.
What process causes the earths crust to continuously formed by volcanic activity?
Pressure from the earths core
What is the chain of mountains that extends into all of earths oceans is called?
The ocean ridge.
What are the four major components of the earths crust?
hydrosphere sedimentary rock basalt ocean floor granite foundation
What layer of the earth's interior contains the highest mountains and the deepest oceans?
The Crust - The crust is Earth's solid and rocky outer layer, including both the land surface and the ocean floor.
Why the crust is thinner than the ocean floor?
The crust is the Ocean floor. There is Oceanic Crust, And then There is Continental Crust.
Is it true that tectonic plates made up of land and ocean floor?
Yes, there are two types of crust on the Earth, oceanic and continental. The crust under the oceans is, of course, oceanic crust which has more mass than continental crust. Each type is formed from plates of different size and shape.
