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Who was Alfred Wegener?   He was the scientist how hypothesis continental drift  
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Continental drift?   Continents once formed a single landmass and broke apart  
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Mid-ocean ridge?   Undersea mountain ranges through the center of narrow valleys  
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Sea-floor spreading?   The process by which new oceanic lithosphere forms as magma rises  
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Plate tectonics?   Is the theory that explains how continents move  
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Lithosphere?   The lithosphere forms a thin outer shell of earth  
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Asthenosphere?   Is a layer of rock just below the lithosphere  
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Divergent boundaries?   Is two plates that move away from each other  
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Convergent boundaries?   Are boundaries that form where two plates collide  
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Transform boundary   The boundary at which two plate slide past each other  
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Rifting   Is the process of continents break apart  
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Terrance?   Is a piece of lithosphere that has a unique geologic history  
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Supercontinent cycle?   The process by a which supercontinents form and break apart  
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Pangea?   A supercontinents that formed about 300 million years ago  
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Panthalassa?   The single large ocean that surrounded Pagaea  
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Subduction zone?   The region along a plate boundary  
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Island arc?   Fluids released from the subducted plate causes mantle rock to melt  
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Ridge push?   As cooling rock sinks to the asthenosphere below its exert force  
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Slab pull?   The force exerted by the sinking plate  
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