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[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses what a tectonic plate is and how scientists can recognize its edges, how the plates move by convection in the mantle, the three types of plate boundaries and their features, and how plate tectonics processes lead to changes in Earth's surface features.
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continental rifting, convergent plate boundaries, divergent plate boundaries, hotspots, intraplate activity, mountain building, subduction zones, tectonics plates, theory of plate tectonics, alfred wegener, ck-12, ck-12 foundation, ck-12: fourth grade science: earth science: theory of plate tectonics, continent-continent convergence, ocean-continent convergence, ocean-ocean convergence, transform plate boundaries
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- Knovation Readability Score: 2 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
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