Plate Tetonic Theory Flashcards
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5 prices of evidence that supports the theory of continental drift
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- South America and Africa fit together like a jig saw puzzle
- matching fossils of both plants and animals along the coast of South America and Africa
- matching mountain belts along the coast
- used to be differnt climates (glacial deposits on Africa)
- he collected longitude and latitude coridintaes of Greenland and and when he measured again Greenville was slowly drifting away from Europe.
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What was the name givin by Alfred wegener for the supercontinent
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Pangea
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What types of events occur commonly at plate boundaries
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Volcanoes, earthquakes, and mountains
