Plate Tectonics 📖 Flashcards

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Alfred wegner

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He was someone that studied the natural sciences at the university of Berlin in the early 1900’s he also came up with the jigsaw theory, he believed the earths crust moved it was like a jigsaw, evidence is that mountains, fossils found and creatures discovered.

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Continental Drift

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250 million years ago, the land masses of earth were clustered into one super continent called, Pangea as millions of years passed, Pangea broke apart, and large pieces of land slowly moved away to form continents as we know them today.

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Continental Drift

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250 million years ago one super continent called Pangea, 200 million years ago there are two large continents, 135 million years ago this is when dinosaurs roamed the earth, 65 million years ago this is when many dinosaurs became extinct, present day this is how the earth looks today.

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