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Science Chapter 9

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Destructive plate margins called____________ are where one oceanic plate is forced down into the mantle beneath a second plate.subduction zones
Where two plates collide, ________________ occur.convergent boundaries
Wegener proposed that in the past, the continents were joined to form a supercontinent he named ____________.Panagea
__________ occur where two tectonic plates move away from each other.Divergent boundaries
An ocean___________ is a surface feature produced by a descending plate.trench
Wegener's ___________ hypothesis proposed that the continents changed position on Earth's surface.continental drift
A record of _____________ is preserved in the sequence of rock strips at oceanic ridges.paleomagnetism
Earth's lithosphere is divided into ______________ that move and change shape.plates
Elevated areas of the seafloor called_______________ occur along well-developed divergent plate boundaries.ocean ridges


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