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| The plates that make up the outer shell including the crust and uppermost part of the mantle. |
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| When plates move into one another |
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| When plates move sideways in relation to each other |
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| when one plate dives under another |
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| The highest point on earth |
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| The highest mountain range on earth formed when India and Asia crashed into each other about 55 million years ago |
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| ocean to ocean convergences where one plate dives beneath another forming a deep valley |
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| The deepest point on Earth, located in the North Pacific |
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| A giant trough located in Africa formed by two plates tugged apart |
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| transformational boundaries |
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| A transformational boundary located in California |
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| Where two plates grind past each other |
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