Lithosphere Vocabulary Eli F.

1. When heat and pressure or chemical reactions transforms an igneous or sedimentary rocks.
3. The study of the earth beneath our feet and the materials it is composed of.
6. Vibrational energy that travels through the Earth and across the surface due to the convection of the Asthenosphere.
7. A form of heat transfer, where warmer particles rise, and cooler particles fall. This creates a circular motion.
10. When energy bends due to certain circumstances.
11. Composed of silicon, oxygen, iron, aluminum, and magnesium primarily. Made from the cooling of lava from underwater volcanoes at the bottom of the ocean.
12. When two plates move away from each other or divide. This is what forms valleys, and islands. SubductionZone A type of convergent boundary that occurs when a plate of oceanic crust collides with a plate of continental crust. When this happens the oceanic crust sinks beneath the continental crust.
13. Rocks that came from volcanoes expelling magma from the mantle, that hardened after cooling.
14. Made of a mixture of silicon and oxygen.
15. The Earth’s crust is made of these pieces or plates that move around, forming the geography seen on the surface, as well as all the seismic phenomena that occurs on Earth.

2. An electromagnetic field that surrounds the Earth and acts as a safeguard against the solar winds.
4. An instrument used to measure seismic waves.
5. Rocks formed deposits of shells, remains from deceased organisms, and igneous or metamorphic rock all being cemented together.
8. Regions of the magnetosphere with high energy ions.
9. Charged particles that come from the surface of the Sun and causes the magnetosphere to expand on the side opposite the Sun.
12. The separation of a planet into layers based on density.
16. When two tectonic plates collide with each other. When this occurs between two plates of continental crust it forms mountains.