Vocabulary – Chapter 8 – Quiz Questions #6

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continental drift

 

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Pangaea

 

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plate tectonics

 

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Alfred Wegener

 

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mid-ocean ridge

 

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fossil

 

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sea floor  spreading

 

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lithospheric plate

 

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oceanic plate

 

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continental plate

 

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subduction

 

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mantle plume

 

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divergent boundary

 

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convergent boundary

 

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transform boundary

 

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rift valley

 

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trench

 

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offsetting

 

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geodynamacist

 

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metamorphic rock

 

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contact metamorphism

 

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sedimentary rock

 

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igneous rock

 

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La Brea tar pits

 

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Smilodon californicus