plate tectonics

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The idea that continents move around on Earth's surface.

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continental drift

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An ancient supercontinent made of the landmasses we know as our present-day continents.

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Pangaea

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A theory explaining how the tectonic plates (or lithosphere plates) on earth's surface move

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Plate Tectonics

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A hypothesis that new molten material is erupting from mid ocean ridge.

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sea floor spreading

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a hypothesis that new molten material is erupting from mid ocean ridge.

the plates where these plates meet are called plate bboundaries

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The plates where these plates meet are called plate boundaries.

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lithosphere

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oceanic plates

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when an oceanic plate collides with another plate, either continental or oceanic, subduction of the denser plate occurs

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A valley in the ocean created when one lithosphere plate subducts under another

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Deep-ocean Trench

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alfead wenger is the scientist created the idea of ___

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pangaea

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were discovered during naval mapping of the ocean floor

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mid-ocean ridge

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scientist discovered that the oldest ocean floor was ________ from the mid ocean ridge

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farthest