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Warm UP 12 / 03/ 12 Give the three sources of evidence to support the theory of Continental Drift
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Tectonic Plates have boundaries 3 Types of Boundaries 1.Divergent boundaries 2.Convergent boundaries 3.Transform boundaries
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DIVERGENT BOUNDARIES Occurs where plates move apart Most of these boundaries are found in the oceans
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CONVERGENT BOUNDARIES Occurs where plates push together Can be Oceanic to Oceanic, Oceanic to Continental, and Continental to Continental
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CONTINENTAL – CONTENENTAL COLLISION Occurs where two plates carrying continental crust push together. Both crusts are the same density. This collision forms Mountain Ranges
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Oceanic-Oceanic Subduction Subduction – when one plate sinks beneath another This occus where one plate with oceanic crust sinks, under another plate with oceanic crust Forms deep ocean trenches and island arcs
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Oceanic – Continental Subduction Occurs when ocean crust sinks under continental crust Forms deep-ocean trenches and coastal mountains
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TRANSFORM BOUNDARIES Occurs where plates scrape past each other Occurs mostly on the sea floors near mid-ocean ridges Example of one on land is the San Andreas Fault in California
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