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heat transferred within a fluid |
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| heating and cooling of the fluid caused by differences in temperature, that transfers heat from one part of the fluid to another. |
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| Wegner’s idea that continents slowly moved over Earth’s surface. He believed that the continents were once joined together but have drifted apart. |
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(means all lands) A single landmass that broke apart about 200 million years ago |
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any trace of an ancient organism that has been preserved in rock |
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| an undersea mountain chain where new ocean floor is produced. |
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the process by which molten material adds new oceanic crust to the ocean floor |
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a deep valley along the ocean floor beneath which oceanic crust slowly sinks toward the mantle (subduction) |
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the process by which oceanic crust sinks beneath a deep ocean trench and back into the mantle found at a convergent plate boundary
oceanic plate + continental plate = subduction |
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| stripes in the rock of the ocean floor that shows the direction of the Earth’s magnetic field (This is evidence of seafloor spreading) |
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| A rigid layer made up of the uppermost part of the mantle and crust |
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| Plate (lithospheric plate) |
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| a piece of the lithosphere that slowly moves over the asthenosphere. |
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| The theory that pieces of the Earth’s lithosphere are in constant motion, driven by convection currents in the mantle |
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a break or crack in the Earth’s lithosphere. |
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| a place there two or more plates come together |
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plate boundary-A plate boundary where two plates move away from each other. |
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a deep valley that form where two plates move apart
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continental crust / continental crust |
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| convergent plate boundary |
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| A plate boundary where two plates move toward each other |
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a landform with high elevation and high relief
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A plate boundary where tow plates move past each other in opposite directions. |
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| The shaking that results from the movement of rock beneath Earth’s surface usually at transform boundaries |
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