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1
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Massive rigid slabs

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Continental plate

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Large rigid slabs

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Oceanic plates

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3 types of boundaries

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Convergent boundaries
Divergent boundaries
Transfrom boundaries

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Towards each other,
Plate tectonics collide
Formation of mountains, etc

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Convergent boundaries

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Plates move away
Creation of new crust
Continous reshaping

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Divergent boundaries

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6
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Past each other horizontally and redristibute stress

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Transfrom boundar

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7
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Grape

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Raisin theory

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American seismologist who proposed isostasy in 1889

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Clarence Edward Dutton

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Great continental mass

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Isostasy

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10
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Greek word of tectonic mean builder or carpenter

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Tekton

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11
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Massive irregular slab, fragmented into dozen

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Tectonic plates or lithospheric plates

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12
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Constantly motion

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Asthenosphere

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13
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Develop and published the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum

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Abraham ortelius

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14
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Transfered from one place

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Mantle convection theory

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15
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Proposed the mantle convection theory

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Arthur holmes

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16
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States that gravity and the plate themselves

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Slab pull theory

17
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Australian scientists

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Edward seuss

18
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What year after the bigbang

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13.77 billion years ago

19
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German climatologist and proposed the “continental drift theory” in his book the “the origins of continental and ocean in 1915”

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Alfred Wegener

20
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All earth

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Pangaea

21
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Two smaller supercontinents

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Laurasia and gondwanaland

22
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Vast ocean

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Panthalasa

23
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Continental drifting observed

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Jurassic period

24
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Composed 58 crustal plates

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Earth

25
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Tranfered from one place

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Convection

26
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Technique of inverting

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Seismology tomography

27
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Heavier basalt

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Oceanic crust

28
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Edges of cratons

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Continental margins

29
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Platforms are connected

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Cratons

30
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Oldest foundation

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Basement rock

31
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Solid ground

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Continental crust

32
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2 mechanisms

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Mantle convection theory and slab pull theory

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