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| fossil | preserved remains or evidence of a living thing |
| Pangaea | Name of the single continent, or giant landmass that existed 200 million years ago |
| theory of continental drift | theory proposed by Alfred Wegener that the continents used to be one large continent and have drifted apart |
| midocean ridge | undersea mountain chain where new ocean floor is produced |
| ocean-floor spreading | when the ocean floor is pushed away from a midocean ridge by the making of new ocean floor |
| transform fault | fault that runs across a midocean ridge |
| trench | V-shaped valley on the ocean floor where old ocean floor is subducted (pulled under and destroyed) |
| subduction | process in which crust falls into the interior of the Earth |
| theory of plate tectonics | theory that connects the ideas of continental dirft and ocean floor spreading |
| plate | one of the moving slabs that make up the Earth's lithosphere |
| tectonics | branch of geology about the movements that shape the Earth's crust |
| lithosphere | top solid part of the Earth, crust and part of the mantle |
| divergent boundaries | plate boundary where plates move apart |
| convergent boundaries | plate boundary where plates move together |
| strike-slip boundary | plate boundary where two plates move past each other horizontally |
| convection current | movement of air or water when cool heavier air sinks and warm lighter air rises movement of material caused by temperature |
