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plate tetonics

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mid ocean ridge

An undersea mountain chain were new ocean floor is produced a divergent plate boundary under the ocean

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sea floor spreading

The process by which molten adds new oceanic crust to the ocean floor

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Subduction

The process which oceanic sinks beneath a deep ocean trench and back into the mantle at a convergent plate boundary

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ocean trench

an undersea valley that represents one of the deepest part of the ocean

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Hypothesis

a supposition or proposed explanation made on the basis of limited evidence as a starting point for further investigation.

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divergent boundary

A plate boundary where two plates move away from each other.

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convergent boundary

plate boundary where two plates move toward

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Tranform Boundary

A plate boundary where two plates move past each other in opposite directions

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stress

A force, the acts rock to change its shape or volume

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tension

Stress stash trenches rock show that a big comes thinner in the middle

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Comperession

stress, the squeezes rock until it folds or break

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shearing

Stretch step pushes masses of Brock in opposite direction in a sideways movement

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fault

A break in earths crust, along which rock move or rock beneath the earth surface

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earthquake

The shaking of results from the movement

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Magnitude

The measurement of an Earthquake strength based on the semantic wave on and movement along,

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Tsunami

A giant wave usually caused by an earthquake beneath the earths ocean floor

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scale

The relative size of an extent of something

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volcano

A weak spot in the crust where magma has come to the surface

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magma

A molten mixture of rock forming sentences gases in water from the mantle

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lava

Liquid magma that reaches its surface

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hot spot

An area where magma from deep within the mantle melts through the crust above

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extinct

Term used to describe a volcano that is no longer active an unlikely to irrupt again

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dormant

Term used to describe a volcano that is not currently active but to become active in the future

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active

Working operative

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Composite

made up of various parts of elements

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who made the hypothesis

alfred wegener

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the name of the super continent

pangaea

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pangaea

animal fossils,plant fossils,rocks

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the largest earthquake

valdivia earthquake which occurred in 1960 in the country of chile

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pangaea broke when

about 250 million years ago

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