Science Flashcards
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Sciencetific theroy
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A well tested concept that explain a wide range of abservation.
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Plate tectonics
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The theroy that piecse of earths lithophere are in constant motion ,drivin by convection currents in the mantle .
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Fault
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A break in earths crust where masses of rock slip past each other
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Divergent boundry
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A plate boundry where to plates move away from each other.
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Convergent boundry
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A plate boundry where to plates move towards each other
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Transform boudry
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A plate boundry where two plates move past each other in opposite direction
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Rift valley
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A deep valley that forms where two plates move apart .
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Plate
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A section of the lithophrere that slowly moves over the athnenophere ,carring piece off contintel and ocenic crust.
