Continental Drift

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What is Pangaea?

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Pangea was a supercontinent that was assembled from earlier continental units approximately 335 million years ago, and it began to break apart about 175 million years ago.

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Transform boundary move in what direction?

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Slide past each other

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What happens on the surface of the Earth at a Divergent boundary?

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Seafloor spreading and faults

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What happens on the surface of the earth at Convergent boundaries?

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Mountains

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What is occurring in this picture? *(Hint)* This occurs at divergent plate boundaries

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Seafloor spreading

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What drives the movement of plate tectonics?

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Convection

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Where can you find the Ring of Fire?

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Pacific Ocean

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What is the Ring of Fire?

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A large ring of volcanoes surrounding the Pacific Ocean.

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What happens when an oceanic plate collides with a continental plate?

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Subduction occurs.

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Tectonic plate float on which layer of the earth?

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Mantle