UNIVERSE
PLANETARY INTERIORS
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Question
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Massive pieces of land that are part of the Earth’s crust and upper mantle
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Tectonic plates
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Trenches
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Divergent boundary
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Continental shelves
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -massive slab of solid rock made up of Earth’s lithosphere (crust and upper mantle). Also called lithospheric plate.
Detailed explanation-2: -Earth’s crust, called the lithosphere, consists of 15 to 20 moving tectonic plates. The plates can be thought of like pieces of a cracked shell that rest on the hot, molten rock of Earth’s mantle and fit snugly against one another.
Detailed explanation-3: -Tectonic plates float on the asthenosphere, which is the uppermost layer of the mantle.
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