Plate Tectonics Vocab Flashcard 2

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Theory of connected continents that drifted apart.

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Continental drift

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Crust + upper mantle = ?

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Lithosphere

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Movement of hot rocks up and cooler rocks down forming a cyclical motion.

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Convection current

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Boundary shown here.

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Transform

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Boundary shown here.

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Convergent

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Boundary shown here.

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Divergent

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Continental masses joined in early Earth.

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Pangea

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Plate tectonics: Earth's surface consists of moving tectonic plates.

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True

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Subduction

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The process where one tectonic plate is pulled beneath another.

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Convection Current

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Movement of matter due to density differences.