pLaTe tEcToNiCs

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Clues

• plates collide together
• plates move away from each other
• theory that Pangaea once existed
• locked in the lithosphere
• chain of underground mountains
• energy released by an earthquake carried by vibrations
• the process by which oceanic crust sinks into the mantel through a trench
• the realease of energy stored in the rocks
• super continental which was seperated by continental drift
• moves particles back and forth
• causes ground to move up and down
• bends in rock layers
• a process by which new oceanic crust is created
• plates slide past one another
• a tool used to measure earthquakes
• point of the earth directly above the focus of an earthquake
• big deep whole in the ocean
• forces of deformation acting on rocks of earths crust
• fracture in earths crust where movement takes place
• where the earthquake starts

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