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What causes the movement of Tectonic Plates?
Convection currents in the Mantle
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What is the outermost layer of the Earth's surface called?

the crust

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There are 3 pieces of evidences that support Wegener's Theory of continental drift. Name one.

Fossil record, continent shapes, and rock layers

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What type of energy transfer uses direct contact?

Give an example

Conduction

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When this material reaches the surface of the Earth it is called this.

Lava

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What natural disaster occurs because of plate movement?

volcanoes or earthquakes

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What is a boundary where two plates slide along each other?
Transform
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What is the process when oceanic crust sinks below continental crust?

Subduction

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What plate boundary produces sea-floor spreading?

Divergent

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Super Continent that scientists believe existed and evidence of continental drift. 

Pangea

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What layer of Earth is the only liquid layer?

Outer Core

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What do you call the area where two tectonic plates meet?
Plate Boundary
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What happens when a continental plate converges with a continental plate?

Mountain building/ uplift

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What type of boundary is made when two tectonic plates collide?
Convergent
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What geographical feature is caused under water at a divergent boundary in the Atlantic Ocean?

Mid-Atlantic Ridge

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joke! One tectonic plate bumped into another and said:

sorry, my fault!

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This layer of the earth is solid metal due to pressure. 

Inner Core

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What hardens to form new rock at mid-ocean ridges?
Magma
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Movement of matter caused by differences in density and temperature. 

Convection

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This person supported Wegners continental drift and founded the seafloor spreading theory

Hess

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Who developed the theory of continental drift?
Alfred Wegner
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What layer of earth do tectonic plates sit on? This layer is below the lithosphere

Asthenosphere

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What is the theory that the earth's surface is broken up into large pieces that float on top of the asthenosphere?
The Plate Tectonic Theory
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The type of tectonic plate boundary that sometimes has a subduction zone is ______.
Convergent Boundary
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What is the process called when one plate slides under another.

What features are formed name two

Subduction

Trench, volcanoes,