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Plate Tectonics
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| convergent | plate boundaries that collide |
| divergent | plate boundaries that move apart |
| transform | plate boundaries that slide across |
| subduction | ocean rock sinking into the mantle at a trench |
| trench | the downward bend in the oceanic crust where subduction occurs |
| midoceanridge | longest mountain chain where sea floor spreading occurs |
| seafloorspreading | the process of adding new material to the ocean floor |
| platetectonics | a theory that the plates are in a constant motion due to convection currents in the mantle |
| Wegener | the scientist that proposed the Theory of Continental Drift |
| lithosphere | upper part of the mantle and the crust |
| asthenosphere | a layer of partially melted rock beneath the lithosphere |