Plate Margins Flashcards
What are the characteristics of the outer core?
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The layer surrounding the inner core. A liquid layer of iron and nickel.
What are the characteristics of the outer core?
What is the lithosphere?
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The rigid layer formed by the crust and upper mantle.
What is the lithosphere?
Identify the three types of plate margin.
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Constructive, conservative and destructive.
Identify the three types of plate margin.
What is the structure of the Earth?
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From the centre:
- Inner core
- Outer core
- Mantle
- Crust
What is the structure of the Earth?
Give an example of two tectonic plates that form a conservative plate margin.
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North American and Pacific plates, Cocos and Nazca plates, Arabian and Indo-Australian plates and the African and Eurasian plates.
Give an example of two tectonic plates that form a conservative plate margin.
