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Plate Tectonics Voc.
Vocabulary Words for science...
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Continental Drift | The hypothesis that the contents slowly move across Earth's surface. |
| Pangaea | The name of the single landmass that broke apart 225 million years ago rise and gave 2 days continents. |
| Seafloor spreading | the process by which multen naterial adds new oceanic crust to the ocean floor. |
| Plate | a section of the lithosphere that slowly moves over the asthenosphere, carring pieces of continental and oceanic crust. |
| Lithosphere | a rigid layer made up of the upper most part of the mantle and the crust. One into which scientist divide earth. |
| Divergent Boundary | a plate boundary where to plates move away from each other. |
| Convergent Boundary | a plate boundary where two plates move toward each other. |
| Subduction | the process by which oceanic crust sinks beneath the deep-oceanic trench back into the mantle at a convergent plate boundary. |
| Transform fault | where two plates move back and forth side to side. |
| convection current | the movement of a fluid, caused by differences in temperature, that transfers heat from one part of the fluid to another. |
| Mid-ocean ridge | the undersea mountain chain where new ocean floor is produced; a divergent plate boundary |
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