Where two tectonic plates slide past each other.

the earth's lithosphere is broken into pieces.

where two tectonic plates collide with each other.

process in which new ocean floor is created as molten material from the mantle rises between plates.

one edge of a crustal plate is forced downwards into the mantle below another plate (crust is destroyed here).

two tectonic plates are moving away from each other.

a region circling the Pacific ocean that has lots of volcanoes.

underwater mountain range formed by plate tectonics.

Name of the man who proposed the hypothesis was Continental Drift.

The hypothesis that the continents were once joined as one super-continent.

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