Geology and Non-Renewable Minerals

What are Earth’s 3 major concentric zone?

Earth’s innermost zone

Extremely hot and has a solid inner part, surrounded by a liquid core of molten or semisolid material

most of it is solid rock

What is under the rigid outermost part?

zone of hot, partly melted rock that flows and can be deformed like soft plastic

Where is the asthenosphere located?

outermost and thinnest zone of earth

Consists of the continental crust, which underlies the continents

flows of energy and heated material in mantle’s convection cells cause dozen of huge rigid plates

boundaries between tectonic plates as they separate, collide, or slide past one another

tremendous forces produced at plate boundaries can cause?

oceanic plates move apart from one another

When oceanic plates move apart from one another molten rock, or magma, flows up through the resulting cracks which creates what?

oceanic plate collides with a continental plate

When an oceanic plate collides with a continental plate, the continental plate usually rides up over the denser oceanic plate and pushes it down into the mantle in a process called what?

area where collision and subduction takes place

plates slide and grind past one another along a fracture in the lithosphere

most of the transform fault are located on the?

generated by heat from the earth’s interior

typically build up the earth’s surface in the form of continental and oceanic crust

driven directly or indirectly by energy from the sun (mostly in the form of flowing water and wind) and influenced by gravity

tend to wear down the earth’s surface and move matter from one place to another

physical, chemical, and biological processes that break down rocks into smaller particles that help build soil