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Plate Techtonics

Horizontales
A long, undersea chain that has a steep, narrow valley at its center and that creates new organic lithosphere as tectonic plates move apart Places where new sea floor is being created
The single, large ocean that covered earths surface during the time the supercontinent Pangaea existed
The solid plastic layer of the mantle beneath the lithosphere
The supercontinent that formed 300 million years ago and that began to break up 200 million years ago
A piece of lithosphere that has a unique geologic history and that may be part of a larger piece of lithosphere such as a continent
The hypothesis that a single large landmass broke up into smaller landmasses to form the continent's which then drifted to their present location
The process by which supercontinents form and break apart over millions of years
The process by which new organic lithosphere (sea floor) forms as magma rises to Earths surface and solidifie
Paleontologists noticed that these were the same on different continent's even though the continent's were separated by oceans
The solid outer layer of earth that consists of the crust and the rigid upper part of the mantle
The scientist who penned the theory of Plate Tectonics
Verticales
The boundary between tectonic plates that are colliding
Source of heat in the mantle
Section of the Earth below the crust
The theory that explains large pieces of the lithosphere called plates move and change shape
Deepest part of the oceans
The boundary between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other
The process by which earths crust breaks apart, can occur within continental crust or organic crust
Scientist who first proposed that thermal convection in the mantle causes continental drift
Coolest person in the class.