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The heavier oceanic plate will sunk under the lighter continental plate, where it is melted and adds to the mantle. this is called what?
Subduction
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What was the name of the supercontinent?
Pangaea
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What can you find at a transform plate boundary?
San Andreas fault
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Plates being moved by convection currents to its current position is called?
Continental drift
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Name the 4 layers of the earth
Crust, mantle, outer core, inner core
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What plate do we live on?
Eurasian
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Name the three types of plate boundaries
Constructive, destructive, transform
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Define plate tectonics
Plate tectonics
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How does plates move?
Convection currents
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Convection currents are _____ movements of magma in the ______ between the _____ and the _____
circular, mantle, core, crust
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The earth is thicker and thinner in places and is divided into two types:
Continental and oceanic
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Give an example of a mountain found at what plate boundaries?
Himalayas, destructive
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Who proposed continental drift?
Alfred Wagner
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Define a plate boundary
Where two or more plates meet
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What direction does constructive plate boundaries move in?
Seperating
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