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the process by which oceanic crust sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench adn back into the mantle at a convergent boundary.

transform boundary

A plate boundary where two plates move past each other in opposite directions.

mid-ocean ridge

An undersea mountain chain where new ocean floor is produced; a divergent plate boundary.

deep ocean trench

A deep valley along the ocean floor where oceanic crust slowly sinks back into the mantle.

plate tectonics

The theory that pieces of Earth's lithospheric plates are in constant motion, driven by convection currents in the mantle.