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Land Beneath Our Feet #2

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continental drift   Wegner's theory that Earth's continents were once joined in a single landmass and gradually moved apart  
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Pangaea   Wegner's name for the supercontinent  
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mid-ocean ridge   underwater mountain ranges  
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convection   energy transfer by the movement of a material  
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convection currents   sinking and rising motion that occurs through the transfer of heat energy  
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theory of plate tectonics   theory that states that Earth's lithosphere is made up of huge plates that move over the surface of the Earth  
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divergent boundary   occurs where plates move/pull apart  
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convergent boundary   occurs where plates move/push together  
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transform boundary   occurs where plates scrape/slide by one another  
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rift valley   happens where ridges continue to widen and create a gap and molten material rises to build new crust  
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magnetic reversal   where the North and South Poles switch position  
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hot spots   where heated rock rises in plumes or thin columns from the mantle  
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subduction   one plate sinks beneath another  
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continental-continental collision   2 continental plates carrying continental crust push together forming mountains  
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oceanic-oceanic subduction   2 oceanic plates come together as one sinks beneath the other due to density (forms ocean trenches and island arcs)  
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oceanic-continental subduction   when oceanic crust sinks under continental crust (forms deep ocean trenches and coastal mountains)  
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