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What is divergent?
Plate boundary type where plates are moving apart.
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What is convergent?
Plate boundary type where plates are colliding.
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What is transverse or lateral?
Plate boundary type where plates are moving sideways.
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What is the lithosphere?
The "solid rock layer" of the Earth.
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What is the asthenosphere?
The "weak layer" of the Earth that the plates slide on.
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