Crust and Lithospheric Plates

Content Vocabulary

1. DENSITY– the constant ratio between the mass and volume of matter.

2. HEMISPHERE– half of the celestial sphere such as the globe divided by an imaginary line.

3. OCEANIC– anything that relates to oceans

4. CONTINENTAL– anything that relates to continents.

5. LITHOSPHERE- the rigid outer layer of the Earth made of the crust and upper mantle.

6. TECTONIC PLATES- huge pieces of the Earth's lithosphere that move slowly over the mantle.