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Plate tectonics
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Geography
8th Grade
06/15/2006

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Alfred Wegener
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He discovered that all continents where once joined together in one big land called Pandaea.
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The Two northern and southern continents in Panaea
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Lurasia, Gondwanaland
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Plate Names
Definition
North America, South America, Nazca Plate, Eurasian Plate, Pacific Plate, Indian Plate, Australian Plate, Antartic Plate
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Major Boundaries between plates
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Mid-Atlantic Ridge, Himalayas, San-Andreas Fault.
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Four types of boundaries
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destructive, constructive, conservative, collision
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Features of Boundaries
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volcanoes,saline lakes, fold mountains, trench.
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Layers of the Earth (from outside layer -> in)
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Crust, Mantle, Outer Core, Inner Core
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Marianas Trench
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Is deeper than Mount Everest is tall and is a destructive plate boundary.
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