STUDY: Vocabulary
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Vocabulary
Convergent boundary: Also called "subduction zones." One plate moves towards another.
Divergent boundary: two plates moving away from each other.
Lithosphere: Top-most part of the Earth; the surface. Composed of the crust and upper-most part of the mantle.
Plate boundaries: places on Earth in which two parts of the Earth interact with one another.
Plate Tectonics: theory that the Earth's crust is moving as a series of large chunks.
Tectonic Plate: large parts of the lithosphere.
Transform boundary: Also called "conservative boundary." Two plates sliding past each other.
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