Plate Tectonics Review

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What is the feature formed at a continent-continent convergent boundary?

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Mountain ranges

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What is the name of the supercontinent which Wegener believed existed about 300 million years ago?

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Pangaea

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Why did most scientists dismiss Alfred Wegener’s hypothesis of continental drift?

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Wegener could not identify a force that could move the continents.

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What is the study of the underwater depth of lake or ocean floor called?

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Bathymetry

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What does the theory of continental drift state?

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The continents were all joined together and slowly drifted apart.

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What are tectonic plates?

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Large sections of the Earth's lithosphere that move and interact with each other.

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What is a divergent boundary?

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A tectonic plate boundary where two plates move away from each other.

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What is a convergent boundary?

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A tectonic plate boundary where two plates collide or move towards each other.

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What is a transform boundary?

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A tectonic plate boundary where two plates slide past each other horizontally.

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What geological features are commonly associated with divergent boundaries?

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Mid-ocean ridges and rift valleys.