Plate Tectonics Flashcards
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What’s a divergent boundary?
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When two plates converge
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What’s a fault?
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A break in earths crust where rocks have slipped pas each other
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Rift Valley
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Deep valley that forms where two plates meet
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What are convergent blunders?
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Where two plates carrying oceanic crust meet, subduction does not take place
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What are transform boundaries
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When the braking rocks slow plates to slip past each other
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What was the scientific theory?
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Well tested concept that explained wide observation
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What’s a plate
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A section of the lithosphere that slowly
