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Hawaii Volcanoes NP2

Earth and Space Science

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Plate Tectonic Theory Earth's outer shell is broken into large moving plates that float on the molten mantle below. These plates interact at their boundaries.
Pangea supercontinent that existed from approximately 335 to 175 million years ago.
Convergent Plates are moving towards each other. ALWAYS have a trench or some type of mountain range. oceanic to oceanic oceanic to continental continental to continental
Subduction (C) sideways and downwards movement into mantle beneath other plate.
Trench (C) long, narrow, deep depression on seafloor that forms at a subduction zone.
Divergent two plates move away from each other, magma rises to create new crust.
Rift (D) linear zone where lithosphere is pulled apart, continents split, formation of new crust.
Mid- Ocean Ridge (D) underwater mountain range formed by plate tectonics. New oceanic crust is created as magma rises and solidifies.
Transform Boundary where two tectonic plates slide horizontally past one another.
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