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1
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What type of boundaries move towards each other

A

Convergent boundaries

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What type of boundaries move away from each other

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Divergent boundaries

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What type of boundaries slide against each other

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Transform boundaries

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Molten rock is called

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Magma

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5
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Transform boundaries make

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earthquakes

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Rocks rising up and down in the mantle

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Convection current

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Magma forced to the surface of earth

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A volcano

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What do you call a plate of a lower density sliding under the other

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A subduction zone

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9
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What forms trenches

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Subduction

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What makes a subduction zone

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Two plates with different density colliding

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Where does the convection current live

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The mantle

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12
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What do divergent boundaries make

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A rift, and new crust

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13
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What do convergent boundaries make

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Mountain ranges

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14
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Is the mantle solid?

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NO! The Mantle is not sold

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15
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What is the Lithosphere

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It is the crust and the upper Mantle

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What forms when a oceanic and a continental plate converge

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Becomes granite.

17
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What forms when oceanic crust diverges

A

mid ocean ridge

18
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Why is the ring of fire an area in the Pacific, where many earthquakes and volcanos happen

A

there are numerous tectonic plate boundaries along the edges

19
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How do earths tectonic (LIthosphere) plates move

A

convection current

20
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New crust is formed in the ocean at mid-ocean ridges. What does this do to the older rocks

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Pushes older rocks to the side that causing seafloor spreading

21
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What evidence did Wegener find to support his theory of Continental Drift

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matching ice sheets in Africa, Antarctica, SA, and Australia

22
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Why did other sciences not support Wegener’s theory of Continental drift.

A

he could not explain how the plates moved

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