pangea - supercontinent, tectonic plate - it floats on the asthenosphere, consists of oceanic and/or continental crusts, continental crust - Earth's outermost layer that is covered with continents, oceanic crust - Earth's outermost layer that is covered with waterbodies, lithosphere - refers to the uppermost mantle and crust, core - innermost layer of Earth's structure, crust - outermost layer of Earth's structure, mantle - lies above the core, consists of semi-solid rock, magma - extremely hot molten and semi-molten rock found in the mantle, lava - magma that has extruded from the magma onto the earth's surface, convection currents - the main driving force of plate movement, slab pull force - occurs due to gravity that drags the oceanic plate downwards, divergent - the plate boundary where plates move away from each another, convergent - the boundary where plates move towards each another, transform - the plate boundary where plates slide past each other, plate tectonics - the theory that explains why plates move, tectonic landforms - the movement of plates results in the formation of fold mountains, volcanoes and ocean trenches, tectonic phenomena - the movement of plates results in the occurrence of earthquakes and tsunamis,

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