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Where two plates collide.
The cold and rigid outermost rock layer.
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The cold and rigid outermost rock layer.
Lithosphere
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mid-ocean ridges
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Where two plates collide.
Transform plate boundaries
convergent plate boundaries
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When the denser tectonic plate sinks below the more buoyant plate.
Convection
Subduction
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It is plastic, meaning it slowly flows. It is right underneath the lithosphere.
Pangaea
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Asthenosphere
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The process by which new oceanic crust forms along a mid-ocean ridge and older oceanic crust moves away from the ridge.
seafloor-spreading
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Pangaea
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The idea that all the continents were once part of a supercontinent
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mid-ocean ridges
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Pangaea
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The circulation of material caused by differences in temperature and density.
basal drag
Convection
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The circulation of material caused by differences in temperature.
Subduction
Convection
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Earth’s surface is made of rigid slabs of rock, or plates, that move with respect to each other.
theory of plate tectonics
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Lithosphere
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Mountain ranges in the middle of the oceans.
seafloor-spreading
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mid-ocean ridges
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It is plastic, meaning it slowly flows. It is right underneath the lithosphere.
Asthenosphere
Pangaea
klh
;o
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Where two plates slide past each other
Transform plate boundaries
divergent plate boundaries
