Vocabulary # 12

Vocabulary # 12

Moving Plates

Crust : Earth`s solid, rocky surface containing the continents and the ocean floor .
                                                                    

Crust is earths solud , rocky surfae containing continents etc.

 

Original Horizontality : The idea the many kinds of rocks from in flat, horizontal layers.
                                    
Horginal horizontally is the idea that earth leyers are in horizontal way .

Continental Drift : The idea that a supercontinent split apart into pieces, the continents, which drifted in time to their present locations .

Continental drift is the idea that continets split appart .

Sea Floor Spreding : The idea the new crust is forming at ridges in the sea flood, spreading apart the crust on either side of the ridges .

                            
The idea thar new crust are forming .

Magma : Hot, molten rock below Earth's surface

                              
Magma escape from the vent of a volcano.

 
Plate tectonics :The idea that Earth's surface is broken into plates the move .
                              
Plate tectonics can apart 2 countries .  

Mantle : Earth's layer beneath the crust

                              
I will like to explore more about mantle layer.

Subduction :  Where plates collide, the sliding of a denser oean plate under another plate .
                       
I really dont know what is subduction .