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Tectonics

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Pangea   Pangea means all land  
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continental drift   Wegener's hypothesis that all continents had once been joined together  
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sonar   System that uses sound waves to calculate the distance to an object  
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paleomagnetism   As certain rocks form, they acquire the polarity that Earth's magnetic field has at a time.  
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subduction   Ocean floor returns to mantle  
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sea-floor spreading   Process by which plate tectonics produces new oceanic lithosphere at ocean ridges  
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mid-ocean ridge   A long chain of mountains extending the length of the ocean  
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rift valley   a deep central valley of a mid ocean ridge  
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deep-ocean trench   form the deepest of Earth's oceans.  
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plate   Broken up pieces of the Lithosphere  
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volcanic island arc   This newly formed land consiting of an arc-shaped chain of small volcanic islands  
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continental volcanic arc   an arc of continents with volcanos  
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transform fault boundary   a boundary in which two plates slide past each other without creating or destroying lithosphere  
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divergent boundary   Found where two of Earth's plates move apart.  
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convergent boundary   Where to plates come togeather  
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plate tetonics   plates move slowly relative to each other, driven by convection currents in the mantle.  
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convection current   convective flow in the mantle causes tectonic plates to move  
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ridge-push   Lithosphere slides down the Athenosphere  
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mantle plume   A raising column of hot solid mantle rock  
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slab-pull   Pulls the old ocean lithosphere into the mantle.  
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