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Plate Tectonics 4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Convergent Boundary | A boundary between two plates that are movoing toward each other or converging |
| Transform Boundary | A boundary between two plates that are sliding past each other |
| Collision Boundary | A convergent boundary where two continents have come together and are welded into a single, larger continent |
| Alfred Wegner | Scientist proposed a hypothesis called Continental Drift |
| Rift Valley | A deep valley at a point where litospheric plates are moving apart |
| Rift | A crack or opening in Earth's crust |
| Deep Sea trench | A long narrow, steep-sided trough that runs parallel to continental margins or to volcanic island chains |
| Divergent Boundary | Boundary between two litospheric plates that are moving apart |
| Wegener's Hypotheses | Shape of the continents,rock formation, climate change and fossil |