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What was one thing used to support the theory of plate tectonics

What are fossils?

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mountain
What is when two continental plates collide it makes a
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convection current
What is the way plates move
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Mantle
What is the place convection current takes place in
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outer layer of earth and lithosphere
What is what are plates made up of
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asthenosphere

What is what do plates float on

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Basalt
What is what type of rock are oceanic plates made of
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Granite and basalt
What is the rock that makes up the continental plates
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Pangea
What is the name of the supercontinent
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When plates move side by side to each other

What are transform boundaries?

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What is evidence that supports plate tectonics?

Fossils, climate, geology

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lithosphere
What is made up of huge plates that move through the Earth?
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Pacific Plate
What is the biggest plate in the world
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The thinnest and least dense layer of Earth

Crust

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What is the cause of plate movement?

Convection currents

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What landforms are caused by plate divergent boundaries?

Rift valleys and seafloor spreading

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When one plate moves under another plate

Subduction

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The mountain range with the highest mountain on the planet caused by convergent plates

Himalaya mountains

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What are ways plate tectonics affect people around the world

Earthquakes and volcanoes

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What scientist is credited with the first theory of plate tectonics

Alfred Wegener 

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