Plate Tectonics
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| Plate Tectonics | Theory that describes and explains the way that the continents separated into today's land masses from one large land mass (Pangea) and how they continue to move today
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| Convergent Boundary | Locations where lithospheric plates are moving towards one another; can produce earthquakes, volcanic activity and mountain building
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| Plate | Pieces of the crust and upper mantle that float and move around on the asthenosphere
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| Divergent Boundary | Locations where plates are moving away from one another; occurs above rising convection currents and causes rifts, volcanoes, and mid-ocean ridges
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| Subduction | Process in which one edge of the crustal plate is forced below the edge of another and sinks into the mantle
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| Geology | The Scientific study of the origin, history, structure, and composition of the Earth
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| Mountain Building | Formed through volcanic activity, by erosion or uplift of the continental crust when plates collide
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| Sea Floor Spreading | Process in which the ocean floor is extended when two plates move apart
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| Transform Boundary | Locations where two plates slide past one another. Sudden shifts result in major geological events, such as earthquakes and the release of stored energy
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| Oceanic Plate | Part of the crust that lies beneath the oceans
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| Continental Plate | Part of the crust that makes up the continents
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| Tectonic Plates | Huge pieces of the lithosphere that slowly move on the asthenosphere, and consist of the crust and the rigid, uppermost part of the mantle
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| Ocean Basin | Movement of the plates that create dense oceanic crust that sinks lower in the asthenosphere than the less dense continental crust
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| Earthquake | Major geological event that occurs when plates shift at a transform boundary
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| Volcanic Eruptions | Major geological event that occurs when a dense plate subducts below a less dense plate as they converge
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