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Chapter 3 Review

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continental drift   Wegener's idea that the continents slowly moved over Earth's surface.  
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Pangaea   A supercontinent that Wegener named.  
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fossil   Any trace of an ancient organism that has been preserved in rock.  
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mid-ocean ridge   Form large chains of mountains that rise up from the ocean floor.  
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sea-floor spreading   Adds more crust to the ocean floor. At the same time older strips of rock move outward form either side of the ridge.  
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deep-ocean trenches   In a process taking tens of millions of years, part of the ocean floor sinks back into the mantle at deep-ocean trenches.  
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subduction   the process by which the ocean floor sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantle again.  
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divergent boundary   where plates move apart from each other  
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convergent boundary   where plates come together and COLLIDE (with no big explosions to watch D;)  
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transform boundary   where plates slip past each other  
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plate tectonics   the theory of pate tectonics states that Earth's plates are in slow, constant motion, driven by convection currents in the mantle  
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fault   breaks in Earth's crust where rocks have slipped past each other  
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rift valley   where pieces of Earth's crust diverge on land  
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