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plates
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parts of the lithosphere that are broken into pieces separated by cracks
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divergent boundary
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plates move apart
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convergent boundary
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plates come together
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transform boundary
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plates slip past each other
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plate tectonics
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Earth's plates are in a slow, constant motion, driven by convection currents in the mantle
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plate movement causes
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earthquakes, volcanoes, mountain ranges, and deep-ocean trenches
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faults
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breaks in the Earth's crust where rock have slipped past each other and form along boundaries of plates
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rift valley
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divergence boundary that occurs on land or above sea level
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mountains form
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continental crust converges with continental crust
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subduction
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more dense oceanic crust sinks beneath continental crust
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San Andreas Fault
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transform boundary where crust is neither created or distroyed
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