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What are earthquakes
transform boundaries cause a lot of these
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what is continental-continental collision
this is when two land masses hit
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what was pangea
the supercontinent ______ was all of the continents joined together
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What is subduction
continental continental boundaries do NOT have this.
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what is oceanic continental subduction
this is when an ocean sinks under a piece of land
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what is the lithosphere
Earth's crust and part of the upper mantle
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What are volcanoes
oceanic continental boundaries have these on their shore.
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what is oceanic oceanic subduction
this is when two ocean plates collide and one sinks under the other
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what is the asthenosphere
what the lithosphere floats on
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What is a mid ocean ridge
this occurs where two oceanic plates meet
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what is a divergent boundary
this is when two plates move away from each other
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what are convection currents
differences in temperature cause these. they cause the plates to move.
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What is a deep ocean trench
this occurs where two oceanic plates move apart
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what is a transform boundary
this is where two plates slip past each other
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what are plates
these are what float around and cause the different boundaries
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