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9th Grade
06/12/2010

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alfred wegner
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discovered plate tectonics, continents move
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arc
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chain of volcanoes
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asthenosphere
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upper part of the mantle
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convection
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warm air cools and falls
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convergent margin
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when two plates come together
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divergent margin
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2 plates pulling apart
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lithosphere
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crust and plates
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lithostatic pressure
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overburden pressure, lithostatic pressure and vertical stress are terms that denote the pressure or stress imposed on a layer of soilor rock by the weight of the overlying material
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oceanic ridge
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formed at a divergent boundary
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radioactivity
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unstable nuclei decay overtime, turns into another
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rigid
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breaks when bent
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transform fault
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2 plates slide past waschother
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trench
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at con-con boundaries
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