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Plate Tectonics
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The process where the lithosphere plunges back into the
interior of the Earth.
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A seed fern that lived 250 million years ago found on several
continents.• “
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The preserved remains or traces of an ancient organism.
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The theory that links together the ideas of Continental Drift
and Ocean Floor Spreading. It explains how the Earth has
changed over time
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V -shaped valley on the ocean floor caused by a convergent plate
boundary
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The theory, proposed by Alfred Wegener that the continents
were once joined together and have since drifted apart.
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An undersea mountain chain where new ocean floor is produced.
A constructive (divergent) plate boundary
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The movement of material caused by differences in
temperature
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The process in which old ocean floor is pushed away from a mid-ocean ridge by the formation of
new ocean floor
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Plate movement occurs at the
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A hippo-like reptile who wouldnot have been able to swim vast
oceans
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Irregularly shaped pieces of the Earth’s crust
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The branch of geology that deals with the movements that shaped the Earth’s crust.
and float on convection currents in the mantle.
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The name that Alfred Wegener gave to Earth's one huge landmass that existed 300 million years ago.
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Means All Earth
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A German scientist that developed the theory of continental drift. He did not have any proof although he based his theory on the fact that the continents looked like pieces of a puzzle that fit together.
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The edges of Earth's plates where two or more plates meet.
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What takes place when two plates move apart?
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When two plates move apart
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When two plates move toward each other.
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When two plates move past each other or up and down.
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When two plates move past each other or up and down.
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The flat space between the mid-ocean ridges at a divergent boundary, it consists of new ocean floor.
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A v-shaped valley formed at a subduction zone (convergent boundary)
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Underwater mountain chains - formed at a divergent boundary due to the build up of magma.