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What is a transform boundary?
where two plates slide past one another.
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pangea
What is a large land mass
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transform boundary
What boundary causes earthquakes.
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harry hess
Seafloor spreading theory was proposed by?
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mariana trench
An example of a convergent boundary is?
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What is a divergent boundary?
Where two plates pull apart from one another.
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continental drift
A hypothesis that continents have moved slowly to their current locations.
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divergent boundaries
plates move apart at what boundaries.
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older
Ocean floor rocks are what than continental rocks.
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yes
Can all boundaries cause an earthquake?
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What is convergent boundary?
Where two plates collide with one another.
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plates
Sections of earth's crust and upper mantle.
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earthquakes
Where plates slide one another causes what?
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strike-slip fault
Where rocks on opposite sides of a fault move opposite directions or in the same direction at different rates is called.
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divergent boundary
What boundary can cause a mid-oceanic ridge?
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A boundary where a fault is formed.
when two plates slide past one another.
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lithosphere
What is the rigid layer of crust that is part of the upper mantle?
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convergent boundaries
The places between plates moving together are called what?
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plate tectonics
Earth's mantle is broken into different parts is called?
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ridge
Youngest rocks in the ocean floor are located at the mid-ocean what?
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What is a subduction zone?
Where one plate goes under another?
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conduction current
Cycle of heating, rising, cooling, and sinking.
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mountian ranges
What is one of the things convergent boundaries form?
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San Andreas
An example of a transform boundary in California.
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convergent boundary
What type of plate boundary can cause a volcano?