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Portion of Earth’s outer crust that lies beneath the oceans; thin and dense is...
Oceanic Plate
Plate Tectonics
Divergent Boundary
Continental Plate
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Is Plate Tectonics a Theory that explains the way that the continents separated into today’s land masses
True
False
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Volcanic Eruptions is...
Rocky material that makes up continents
Geological events occur when dense plate sub ducts below less dense plate.
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having to do with the study of the origin, history, structure and composition of the Earth is Earthquakes
False
True
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Tectonic Plates
Geological events that occur when a sub ducts below a less dense plate
Locations where lithosphere plates are moving towards one another
Major geological events that occur when plates shiftsuddenly and release st
Pieces of lithosphere consist of the crust & uppermost part of the mantle.