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Plate Tectonics

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What are the three types of boundaries?

Transform, convergent, divergent.

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With your hands how do transform boundaries move?

Slide past or up and down

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With your hands how do convergent boundaries move?

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With your hands how do divergent boundaries move?

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What is made at a transform boundary?

Earthquakes

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What is made at a convergent boundary?

mountain

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What is made at a divergent boundary?

SFS or new crust?

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The crust is broken into pieces called?

tectonic plates bruh

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how fast are the plates moving?

about a couple centimeters a year?

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Alfred Wegener thought which 2 continents looked like puzzle pieces that could fit together?

Antarctica and Asia

South America and North America

South America and Africa

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What are the puzzle pieces of the Earth's surface called?

Puzzles

Tectonic plates

Earthquakes

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Who is the person credited with developing the theory of continental drift?

Harry Hess

Sir Isaac Newton

Alfred Wegener

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What is this a picture of?

Plate tectonics

Pangaea

Glaciers

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Why did no one believe Wegener's theory?

He could not explain how the continents moved

His data was wrong

He didn't have evidence

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What are the three main layers of the Earth?

Crust, Mantle and Core

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Tectonic plates are made up of continental crust and ________ crust.

Oceanic

mantle

Earth

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