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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Pangaea | the super continent that formed 300 million years ago and that began to break up 200 million years ago ( |
| Sea Floor Spreding | the process by which new oceanic lithosphere sea floor forms when magma rises to Earth’s surface at mid-ocean ridges and solidifies, as older, existing sea floor moves away from the ridge |
| plate tectonics | the theory that explains how large pieces of the lithosphere, called plates, move and change shap |
| tectonic plate | the edge between two or more plates classified as divergent, convergent, or transform by the movement taking place between the plate |
| convergent | the boundary between tectonic plates that are colliding |