Plate Tectonics Review

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The part of the earth that includes the crust and the upper mantle and is split into tectonic plates is the

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lithosphere

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Supporting Evidence: subduction, earthquakes, volcanoes, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, older theories

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Plate Tectonics

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Supporting Evidence: discovery of Mid-Atlantic Ridge, core rock samples showing older rocks the farther that you get from the mid ocean ridge

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Seafloor Spreading

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The name for the actual lithospheric plates

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Tectonic Plates

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The theory stating the continents were once joined in a large mass that broke apart.

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Continental Drift

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The process for new oceanic lithosphere forming at mid ocean ridges

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Seafloor Spreading

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The theory that states that the Earth is divided into plates that float and move in slow, constant motion.

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Plate Tectonics

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Ocean trenches always form at subduction zones where dense oceanic crust subducts.

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True

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Volcanoes never form along subduction zones.

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False

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Volcanic mountains are most often formed at this boundary: Divergent, Convergent, Normal, Transform.

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Convergent