Texas Teacher Exam - Science

Texas Teacher Exam - Science minerals - ANS ️️ A solid inorganic substance of natural occurrence. tectonic plates - ANS ️️ Sections of the Earth's crust that move due to convection currents. tectonic plates - ANS ️️ pieces of the lithosphere that move around on top of the asthenosphere oceanic crust - ANS ️️ earths crust located under the ocean. The thinnest type of crust. Mostly basalt continental crust - ANS ️️ thicker, less dense crust making the continents magnesium - ANS ️️ What does the oceanic crust have in it that makes it more dense than the continental crust? Nuclear fission - ANS ️️ The splitting of an atom's nucleus into two smaller nuclei and neutrons convection currents - ANS ️️ Circular currents in the mantle caused by the magma being heated by the core of the Earth. convection currents - ANS ️️ the upward movement of warm air and the downward movement of cool air convergent boundary - ANS ️️ A tectonic plate boundary where two plates collide, come together, or crash into each other. mountains - ANS ️️ What is the result of convergent boundaries?