Plate Tectonics Review

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Boundary between two plates that are sliding past each other

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Transform boundary

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Created by a divergent boundary

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Mid Atlantic Ridge

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What is this a picture of?

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Pangea

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During sea floor spreading, molten material rises up from the mantle...

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At the mid ocean ridges

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A valley formed by the separation of tectonic plates

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Rift valley

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The theory that explains the movement of Earth's plates

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Plate tectonics

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The process by which new oceanic crust is formed

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Sea floor spreading

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The type of boundary where plates move towards each other

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Convergent boundary

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The geological feature formed at a convergent boundary where an oceanic plate is subducted

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Trench

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The supercontinent that existed millions of years ago

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Pangea