How does the asthenosphere differ from the lithosphere?
A) The asthenosphere is the outermost layer made of solid rock while the lithosphere is the innermost layer made of molten rock.
B) The asthenosphere is the innermost layer made of molten rock while the lithosphere is the outermost layer made of solid rock.
C) The asthenosphere is at the core of the earth and the lithosphere surrounds it.
D) The hundred-kilometer plates of the lithosphere rest upon the weaker and less rigid rock of the asthenosphere.
Question 2
Where does most mountain-building activity actually occur on Earth?
A) in the inner mantle, where force causes pressure to build up
B) mountain pressures that build up end up forming mountains in the middle of the tectonic plates
C) at tectonic plate boundaries
D) anywhere on Earth where the necessary forces are evident
Metabolic rates of animals that differ in size.
(a) Mammal species from central Saskatchewan differ greatly in their isotopic signatures. (b) There
Fibrous pericardium (outermost)
Consuming Lithosphere at Convergent Plate Boundaries
The skulls of living haplorhines differ from those of strepsirhines by having large brains, an enclo
Carbon is constantly exchanged between large reservoirs in the lithosphere