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7th Grade Inside Earth Chapter 1 Sections 3-5

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continental drift   the continents slow movement over Earth's surface  
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fossil   any trace of an ancient organism preserved in rock  
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sonar   a device that bounces sound waves off underwater objects and records the echoes of the sound waves  
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deep-ocean trenches   underwater canyons  
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subduction   proces by which ocean floor sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantle  
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plates   the separate sections of the lithosphere  
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scientific theory   well tested concept that explains a wide range of observations  
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plate tectonics   pieces of Earths's lithosphere are in slow, constant motion, driven by convection currents in the mantle  
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faults   breaks in Earth's crust where rocks have slipped past each other  
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divergent boundary   place where two plates move apart  
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rift valley   deep valley formed along the divergent boundary  
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convergent boundary   place where two plates come together  
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transform boundary   place where two plates slip past each other moving in opposite directions  
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