Plate Tectonics Vocabulary
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| Theory of the continental drift | The theory of the continents being one super-continent slowly drifting away to their spots today
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| Pangaea | A super-continent which means all land
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| Inner Core | Solid core made mostly of iron and nickel
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| Outer Core | Liquid core made mostly of iron and nickel
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| Mantle | The upper layer of the earth's mantle, below the lithosphere
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| Crust | The outermost solid shell of the earth which is about 5 to 40 miles thick
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| Lithosphere | The rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle
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| Aesthenosphere | A zone of the earth's mantle that lies beneath the lithosphere and consists of several hundred kilometers of deformable rock
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| Continental Crust | Crust that forms under land or continents
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| Oceanic Crust | Crust that forms under oceans
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| Divergent Boundary | Boundary that splits land
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| Convergent Boundary | Boundary that collides with one another forming mountains and volcanoes
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| Transform Boundary | Boundary that slides past each other
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