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Plate Tectonics
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| continental drift | Wegner's idea that the continents slowly moved over earths surface. |
| mid-ocean ridge | Mountain ranges that ran along the middle of the ocean floor |
| sea-floor spreading | The process which mid-ocean ridges add to the ocean floor |
| deep ocean trenches | Under water canyons where subduction occurs |
| Faults | breaks in Earths surface were rocks have slipped past each other |
| Subduction | the process in which ocean sinks beneath the earths surface and to the mantle |
| Pangaea | The supercontinent which Wegner hypothesized |
| fossil | remains of a ancient creature |
| divergent boundary | plates come apart |
| convergent boundary | plates converge and the dense ocean plate sinks below the continent |
| transform boundary | plates come along each other |
| plate | the pieces which earth is broken into |