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| Continents are in constant motion on the surface of Earth |
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| Naturally Preserved remains, imprints, or traces of organisms that lived long ago |
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| Mountain ranges in the middle of the oceans |
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| Process by which new oceanic crust forms along a mid-ocean ridge and older oceanic crust moves away from the ridge |
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| State in which magnetized objects, such as compass needles, will orient themselves to point north |
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| Magnetic Field reverses direction |
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| State in which magnetized objects would reverse direction and orient themselves to point south |
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| States that Earth's structure is made of rigid slabs or rock, or plates that move with respect to each other |
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| Cold and rigid outermost rock layer |
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| Forms where two plates separate |
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| Forms where two plates slide past each other |
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| Convergent Plate Boundary |
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| Form where two plates collide. |
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| Denser plate sinks below the more buoyant plate |
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| Circulation of material caused by differences in temperature |
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| Rising mantle material at mid-ocean ridges creates the potential for plates to move away from the ridge with force |
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| Slab sinks, it pulls on the rest of the plate with a force |
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