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Vocabulary

 * Scientific Theory**: a well tested concept that explains a wide range of observations
 * Plate Tectonics**: the geological theory that pieces of Earth's lithosphere are in constant, slow motion, driven by convection currents in the mantle
 * Faults**: breaks in Earth's crust where rocks have slipped past each other- forms along these boundaries
 * Transform Boundary**: a place where two plates slip past each other
 * Divergent Boundary**: the place where two plates move apart, or diverge
 * Rift Valley**: a deep valley forms along the divergent boundary
 * Convergent Boundary**: the place where two plates come together, or converge

Outline

 * Plates**
 * -plate tectonics
 * -lithosphere


 * Boundary**
 * -transform boundary: two plates slip
 * -divergent boundary: two plates move apart


 * Continents**
 * - one to ten cm. per year
 * - moves super slow