Plate Tectonics Vocab

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Landform created in the ocean when two tectonic plates pull apart?

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Trench

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Type of plate boundary where a denser plate is forced below a less dense plate?

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Subduction Zone

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Violent event when plates grind past each other, causing ground shaking.

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Earthquake

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Molten rock in Earth's interior?

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Magma

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Theory of Continental Drift proposed by:

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Alfred Wegener

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Outermost layer of the Earth?

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Crust

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Middle layer of Earth?

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Mantle

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Innermost layer of the Earth?

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Core

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Heat transfer in Earth's interior?

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Convection

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Term for the process where tectonic plates move apart?

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Divergence