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Mr. Biando's Lab - Plate Tectonic Theory

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Plate Tectonic   show
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show The boundary formed by the collision of two lithospheric plates.  
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show The boundary between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other.  
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Transform Boundary   show
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show When a plate with oceanic crust collides with a plate of continental crust, the denser oceanic crust sinks into the asthenosphere.  
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Subduction Zone   show
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show When two plates of oceanic crust collide with one sinking below the other into the aesthenosphere.  
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show When two tectonic plates with continental crust collide, they buckle and thicken, which pushes the crusts upward forming mountain chains.  
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show An example of an underwater divergent boundary.  
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Fault   show
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show The movement of the lithosphere sliding downhill caused by the pulling force of gravity.  
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show Hot rock deep within the Earth causes the oceanic lithosphere to move sideways away from the mid-ocean ridge.  
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Slab pull   show
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show A hypothesis that earths continents move on earths surface  
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show are deep valleys at the center of a mid ocean ridge.  
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subduction boundary   show
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deep sea trench   show
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collision boundary   show
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mantle convection   show
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pangaea   show
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craton   show
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terrane   show
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