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A boundary where two plates are colliding.
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Convergent Plate Boundary
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A boundary where two plates are dividing.
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Divergent Plate Boundary
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A boundary where two plates are colliding.
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A boundary where two plates are dividing.
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A boundary where two plates are sliding past each other.
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The area where there is a downward movement of the edge of one tectonic plate into the mantle beneath another plate.
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formed when a continental and oceanic plate are converging.
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This zone forms at transform plate boundaries.
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A chain of volcanoes formed above a subducting plate.
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A valley formed where 2 continental plates are diverging.
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A long ridge system situated in the middle of an ocean basin and marking the site of the up-welling of magma associated with seafloor spreading. An example is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
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The stress found at a divergent boundary.
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The stress found at a convergent boundary.
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The stress found at a transform boundary.
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Convection currents transfer heat from one place to another by mass motion of a fluid such as water, air or molten rock. The heat transfer function of convection currents drives the earth's ocean currents, atmospheric weather and geology.
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A hypothesis that our continents were once all joined together, but have since drifted apart.
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Pieces of Earth's crust and upper mantle (lithosphere)
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A supercontinent that included all current land masses, believed to have been in existence before the continents broke apart
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A sudden and violent shaking of the ground, sometimes causing great destruction, as a result of movements within the earth's crust.
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A giant wave usually caused by an earthquake beneath the ocean floor.
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landform created when 2 continental plates collide.
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the pulling force between two objects
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the rapid, downhill movement of large amounts of rock, soil, and other materials
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the flow of water over the banks of a body of water and across land
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land that becomes too full of water and slides down a slope
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the outermost layer of Earth
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an extremely large, moving slab of rock that forms Earth's crust
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a break or crack in Earth's crust where two plates come together
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a sudden shaking in Earth's crust
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a giant ocean wave caused by earthquakes, volcanoes, or landslides under water
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a mountain that builds up around an opening in Earth's crust
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a place where magma has partially melted through Earth's crust
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a cup-like shape in the Earth
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flooding is occurring or will occur soon
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flooding is possible
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plates pull apart
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plates push together
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rocks slide past each other in different directions
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melted rock, gases, and pieces of rock are forced out of a volcano
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central opening in the top of the volcano
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form along ocean floors where the plates are spreading
