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What type of plate boundary involves new crust forming from plates separating from eachother |
Divergent |
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What type of plate boundary involves plates colliding? |
convergent |
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What kind of plate boundary involves plates moving opposite directions next to eachother |
Transform |
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What are the three pieces of evidence for rate of motion |
Ocean drilling/ sampling Hot spots/ mantle plumes Paleomagnetism/ rock molecules polarity reversed |
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What did Alfred Wegener hypothesize? |
Pangaea and continental drift |
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Heat energy and mineral matter are brought to the crust by |
Tectonic cycle |
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Because of the process responsible for the Himalayan mountains, the crust has been |
Shortened and folded |
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At which of the following areas is new crust formed? |
The mid Atlantic rift zone |
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Crust is neither created nor destroyed arry this plate boundary type |
Transform boundaries |
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What is the desired true statement about the Atlantic Ocean |
The oldest crust is found near the continents |
