Plate Tectonics; Lessons 1 - 3
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| Pangaea | He proposed that all the continents were once part of a supercontinent called ...
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| Continental Drift | Wegener proposed the hypothesis of ..., which suggested that continents are in constant motion on the surface of Earth.
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| Mid-Ocean Ridge | The mountain ranges in the middle of the oceans are called ...
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| Seafloor Spreading | ... is the process by which new oceanic crust forms along a mid-ocean ridge and older oceanic crust moves away from the ridge.
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| Normal Polarity | Today's magnetic field, shown in Figure 8, is described as having ...-a state in which magnetized objects, such as compass needles, will orient themselves to point north.
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| Magnetic Reversal | Sometimes a ... occurs and the magnetic field reverses direction.
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| Reversed Polarity | The opposite of normal polarity is ...-a state in which magnetized objects would reverse direction and orient themselves to point south, as shown in Figure 8.
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| Plate Tectonics | The theory of ... states that Earth's surface is made of rigid slabs of rock, or plates, that move with respect to each other.
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| Lithosphere | The cold and rigid outermost rock layer is called the ...
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| Divergent Plate Boundary | A ... forms where two plates separate.
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| Transform Plate Boundary | A ... forms where two plates slide past each other.
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| Convergent Plate Boundary | ... form where two plates collide.
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| Subduction | The denser plate sinks below the more buoyant plate in a process called ...
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| Convection | You are probably already familiar with the process of ..., the circulation of material caused by differences in temperature and density.
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| Ridge Push | Rising mantle material at mid-ocean ridges creates the potential for plates to move away from the ridge with a force called ...
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| Slab Pull | As a slab sinks, it pulls on the rest of the plate with a force called ...
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