Plate Tectonics Flashcards

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What are the 3 types of plate boundary?

A

Convergent, Divergent, Conservative

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What is the name of the process that describes a denser plate being pushed beneath a less dense plate and into magma?

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Subduction

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Who was the first person that proposed the theory of continental drift?

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Alfred Wegener

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