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1
whats seafloor spreading
sand
a formation of new areas of ocean crust
alot like a reef
deep underwater
2
what are Plate Tectonics
earthquakes
layers of earth
a theory explaining the structure of earths crust
plates in the ground
3
what was another name for the super continent
utopia
the united continents
pangea
super big place
4
whats a subduction zone
a underwater mountain
crust moving across earths surface for a million years
cracks below the earth surface
5
who made the continental drift theory
dora
Adam sandler
Leo ariez
Alfred wegner
6
whats a trench
a long narrow ditch
water beds
holes
giant cliff
7
what is a rift valley
a city
a part of the grand canyon
a lowland between highlands or moutain ranges
rocky parts of the moutains
8
whats a volcanic island arc
a chain of volcanoes formed above a subducting plate
a volcanoe
a volcanoe under earth
9
explain a divergent boundary
something that exist between earth and the core
a linear feature that exist between 2 tectonics plates
idk....
a boundary that exist between earths crust and the ocean
10
whats a ocean ridge
a underwater moutain system created by plate tectonics
a cliff on the ocean floor
underwater island
11
explain a convergent boundary
two or more plate tectonics at the end of there life cycle
cracks and rifts in the mountains
waterflows from the moutains
giant lakes