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Earth Plates
Earth
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Science
8th Grade
01/20/2010

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Term
Wegner
Definition
Proposed the theory that the crsytal plated moving across the mantle.
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Continetal Drift
Definition
The two plates coming together.
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Wegner
Definition
fosil Rocks matching the cost line shapes.
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Moves the plates
Definition
Convention current
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Seafloor Spreading
Definition
When magma goes up threw to plates and forms a crust.
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Diverigent Boundary
Definition
Plates moving apart.
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Convergent Boundary
Definition
Plates moving together.
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Transfor
Definition
Plates moving sideways past each other.
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Follded mountains
Definition
Contiental Contiental
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Deep sea trench
Definition
Ocean crust is formed at mid ocean ridges and destroyes deep sea trences.
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Rift Valleys
Definition
A long narrow valley that is when continetal crust seperates.
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Subduction Zone
Definition
The procces by which one tectonice plate steps beneath another tectonice plate.
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Faults
Definition
When rocks break and slide past each other.
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