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NAME _______________________________________ Chapter 5, Section 5: The Theory of Plate Tectonics 1. ________________ - a section of the lithosphere that slowly moves over the asthenosphere carrying pieces of continental and oceanic crust 2. Plates carry the ___________________________ or parts of the _________________ ___________ or _________________. 3. ___________________________________ combined what geologists knew about seafloor spreading, Earth’s plates, and continental drift into a single theory. 4. The theory of plate tectonics states that _____________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________. 5. The edges of Earth’s plates meet at plate ________________________ that extend deep into the ____________________________. 6. ________________ - a break or crack in Earth’s lithosphere along which the rocks move 7. When two plates collide, the ___________________ of the plates determines which one comes out on top. 8. When a plate carrying oceanic crust collides with a plate carrying continental crust, _____________________________ occurs. The oceanic plate is more dense so it _____________________________________________________________________. 9. When two plates carrying continental crust collide subduction does not take place because ______________________________________________________________. Instead, ___________________________ are formed. 10. Along a _________________________ boundary, crust is neither created nor destroyed. Type of Plate Boundary How Plates Move Results