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  • Plate boundary where plates are sliding past each other?
    Transform boundary
  • What "drives" the plate movement in the Theory of Plate Tectonics
    convection in the mantle, heat from the core
  • What is created when two oceanic plates collide?
    Volcanic Island Arc
  • The biggest divergent plate boundary and where is it?
    Mid ocean ridge, Middle of the Atlantic
  • The sinking of one plate under another plate
    subduction
  • The theory that the earth's lithosphere is broken into plates that glide over the asthenosphere?
    Theory of Plate Tectonics
  • What is created when two continental plates collide?
    Mountains
  • The type of crust that is denser and most likely to sink back into the mantle during a collision
    oceanic crust
  • What event occurs frequently at transform boundaries?
    earthquakes
  • What is caused when an oceanic plate and continental plate collide?
    Volcanic Mountains
  • Name two pieces of evidence that support the Continental Drift Theory
    fossil evidence, continental fit, glacial evidence, landforms and rock layers
  • When a divergent boundary happens on land its called this
    Rift Valley
  • Plate boundary where plates are coming together?
    Convergent Boundary
  • Plate boundary where plates are moving apart from each other?
    Divergent Boundary
  • What is the name of the German scientist who proposed the Continental Drift Theory
    Alfred Wegener
  • What is the lithosphere?
    the crust and upper part of the mantle
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