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Plate Tectonics Vocabulary Games

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deformationthe breaking, tilting, and folding of rocks
types of stresstension, compression, shearing
faulta break or crack along which rocks move
folda bend in a rock
normal faultfault caused by tension
reverse faultfault caused by compression
lateral faultfault caused be shearing
anticlinean upward fold
synclinea downward fold
divergent boundaryplates spread apart
convergent boundaryplates come together
strike slip boundaryplates move horizontally past each other
island arcsform when two ocean plates collide
mountain rangeform when two continental plates collide
volcanoes and subductionform when an ocean plate collides with a continental plate
trenchV-shaped valley that form where plates subduct
mid-ocean ridgeunderwater mounains formed at divergent boundaries
convection currentsformed in the mantle from changes in molten rock temperature
lithospheric platepiece of earth's crust and part of the upper mantel
pangaeaone large land mass

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