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What is convection and how does it move techtonic plates?

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Describe the three main types of plate boundaries.

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List three types of evidence that scientists use to support the claim that continents move over time.

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How does the "Ring of Fire" support the claim that plate movement causes earthquakes and volcanoes?

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Match the following

• The outer most layer of the Earth. This is the layer we walk on.

• Slowly moving pieces of Earth’s crust.

• Movement caused by warm fluids rising and cooler fluids sinking.

• The name given to the super continent from the well-supported theory that all the continents used to be connected as one.

• A scientist who studies earthquakes.

Earth's Crust

Tectonic Plates

Convection

Pangea

Seismologist

• Earth's Crust

• Tectonic Plates

• Convection

• Pangea

• Seismologist

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Match the following

• A boundary of two tectonic plates where the plates move towards each other.

• A boundary of two tectonic plates where the plates move away from each other.

• A boundary of two tectonic plates where the plates slide past each other.

• When one tectonic plate converges under another due to density differences.

• When two tectonic plates slowly crash into each other and mountains are formed.

Convergent Plate Boundary

Divergent Plate Boundary

Transform Plate Boundary

Subduction

Uplift

• Convergent Plate Boundary

• Divergent Plate Boundary

• Transform Plate Boundary

• Subduction

• Uplift

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Do you think that the continents are still moving today? If so, what evidence supports your claim? If not, what evidence supports your claim?