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Continental drift |
the hypothesis that states that the continents once formed a single landmass, broke up, and drifted to their present locations |
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sea-floor spreading |
the process by which new oceanic lithosphere forms as magma rises toward the surface and solidies |
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plate tectonics |
the theory that explains how large places of the Earth's outermost layer called tectonic plates, move and change shape |
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convergent boundary |
the boundary formed the collision of two lithosphere plates |
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divergent boundary |
the boundary between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other |
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transform boundary |
the boundary between tectonic plates that are sliding past each other horizontally |
