Vocabulary convection The movement of materials based on density. Warm materials are less dense, so...
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Vocabulary • convection • The movement of materials based on density. Warm materials are less dense, so they rise and cool, becoming more dense and then sink.
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• convection • The movement of materials based on density. Warm materials are less dense, so they rise and cool, becoming more dense and then sink.
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• convection • The movement of materials based on density. Warm materials are less dense, so they rise and cool, becoming more dense and then sink.
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• sea floor spreading • The process by which the oceanic lithosphere is created as older materials are pulled apart at a divergent boundary.
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• sea floor spreading • The process by which the oceanic lithosphere is created as older materials are pulled apart at a divergent boundary.
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• sea floor spreading • The process by which the oceanic lithosphere is created as older materials are pulled apart at a divergent boundary.
Vocabulary
• sea floor spreading • The process by which the oceanic lithosphere is created as older materials are pulled apart at a divergent boundary.
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• sea floor spreading • The process by which the oceanic lithosphere is created as older materials are pulled apart at a divergent boundary.
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• subduction • The process by which an oceanic plate sinks down into the asthenosphere at a convergent boundary, usually between continental and oceanic plates.
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• subduction • The process by which an oceanic plate sinks down into the asthenosphere at a convergent boundary, usually between continental and oceanic plates.
