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Vocabulary

 * Plates**: Seperate sections of the lithosphere.
 * Scientific Theory**: Well tested concept that explains a wide range of observations.
 * Plate Tectonics**: Geological theory that states that pices of Earth's lithosphere are in constant slow motion, driven by convection currents in the mantle.
 * Faults**: Breaks in Earth's crust where rocks ave sliped past each other.
 * Transform Boundary**: Place where two plates slip past each other, moving in opposite directions.
 * Divergent Boundary**: when two plate move apart, or diverge.
 * Rift Valley**: a deep valley along a divergent boundary.
 * Convergent Boundary**: a place where two plates come together, or converge.

Outline

 * ===A theory of plate motion===
 * ===Plate boundaries===
 * transform boundaries
 * divergent boundaries
 * convergent boundaries
 * ===The continents slow dance===