plate tectonics

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What do we call an area where more than two plates interact in different ways?

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Plate boundary zones.

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Which piece of evidence did Wegener use to prove continental drift?

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All of the above: The shape of the continents, Similar fossils found on separate continents, Tree fossils found in odd places.

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What geologic feature/event would you most likely find at a convergent boundary between two pieces of continental crust?

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Mountain.

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What characteristic of the Indian Plate explains why it moves under the Eurasian Plate?

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It is denser.

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What occurs at a divergent boundary?

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Plates pull apart.

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What is the theory of plate tectonics?

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The theory that the Earth's outer shell is divided into several plates that glide over the mantle.

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What is a convergent boundary?

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A place where two tectonic plates move toward each other.

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What is a divergent boundary?

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A place where two tectonic plates move away from each other.

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What is a transform boundary?

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A place where two tectonic plates slide past each other.

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What is subduction?

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The process by which one tectonic plate moves under another plate and sinks into the mantle.