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Landmasses of earth

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PLATE TECTONICS

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Plates can be classified as:

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CONTINENTAL AND OCEANIC PLATES

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This movement of the lithosphere that produces the landforms on Earth’s surface is a theory known as

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PLATE TECTONIC THEORY

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Associate earthquakes, volcanoes, mountain formation, etc

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PLATE TECTONIC THEORY

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explains the formation, movement, transformation

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PLATE TECTONIC THEORY

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Pangaea

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All land

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HYPOTHESIS

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fit of the continental shorelines,l

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Patterns of rocks and fossils

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Gondwana sequence

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German scientist 1900s

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ALFRED WEGENER

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Single landmass

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PANGAEA

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wgener developed a theory called

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CONTINENTAL DRIFT THEORY

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Movement of materials caused by the difference in the temperature

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CONVECTION CURRENT

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Mantle close to the Earth’s core

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Hotter

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Closer to the lithosphere

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Less hot

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Circular motion or cycle

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Carries plates of the lithosphere causes the continents to move

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16
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Drifting rate

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5-10 per year

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Changes can be seen in about

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50 mil years

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