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| theory that continents have moved slowly to their current locations. Proposed by Alfred Wegener. |
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| the large landmass that Wegener proposed broke apart 200 million years ago. |
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| Harry Hess proposed that hot, less dense material below Earth's crust rises toward the surface at the mid-ocean ridges. |
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| theory that says Earth's crust and part of the upper mantle are broken into sections |
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| sections of the upper mantle of the Earth's crust. |
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| the combination of crust and part of the upper mantle |
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| the plasticlike layer below the lithosphere |
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| the cycle of heating, rising, cooling, and sinking. |
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| occurs when one plate is forced under another plate |
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| occurs when plates slide past each other in the opposite direction |
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