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Kev Science 2/9
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Continental Crust | Crust that contains mostly land, ranging from 14-70 kilometers thick |
| Plate Boundary | a place where pieces of the broken lithosphere meet boundary types include convergent, divergent, and transform |
| Oceanic Ridge | a mountain like landform that develops when tectonic plates move apart or separate when the ocean lithosphere forms |
| Oceanic Crust | crust that lies beneath the ocean ranging from 5-10 km thick |
| Convergent boundary | where two tectonic plates meet and move toward each other (creates mountains, volcanic mountains, volcanic island arcs, and earthquakes |
| Divergent boundary | where two tectonic plates meet and are moving away from each other (creates a rift valley, mid-ocean ridge, seafloor spreading, and weak earthquakes) |
| subduction | The process by which one plate of the lithosphere sinks and slides under one another |
| Transform boundary | when two tectonic plates meet and slide past each other (creates faults and earthquakes) |
| Rift Valley | the valley formed by a diverging plate boundary |
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