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PLATE TECTONICS

Elaine Reed

Introductory vocabulary for 6th grade when studying plate tectonics

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3.theorized that land masses used to be in different places
5.border or limit
7.move away from; pulling apart
9.molten rock under earth's crust - lava source or makes igeous rock when cooled
10.determines how the continents move
13.proposed explanation for fact or phenomena
14.one of six major land masses on earth
15.plate boundaries that slide past each other
16.these are ground up as transform plates move past each other
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1.mechanism that has moved tectonic plates over time
2.molten rock that flows from a volcano or from a crack in the earth
4.two plates that crash into each other
6.supercontinent where all land masses are connected
8.dark dense rock that underlies ocean floor
11.flow or leak slowly
12.long deep valley on ocean floor

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