Plate Tectonics Review

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What is the name of the single landmass that broke apart 200 million years ago?

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Pangaea

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Who is the German scientist that theorized the concept of continental drift and the existence of Pangaea?

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Alfred Wegener

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What type of tectonic plate boundary occurs when two plates collide?

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Convergent boundary

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What geological features are formed at oceanic and continental convergent plate boundaries?

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Deep-oceanic trenches and volcanoes

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What is the only liquid layer of the Earth?

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Outer Core

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What is the theory that explains the movement of the Earth's plates?

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Plate Tectonics

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What are the three main types of tectonic plate boundaries?

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Convergent, Divergent, and Transform boundaries

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What is formed at divergent plate boundaries?

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Mid-ocean ridges and rift valleys

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What is the process called when one tectonic plate is forced under another?

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Subduction

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What is the Earth's outermost layer called?

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Crust