EES Dynamic Earth - ContDrift & PlateTectonics

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What is the theory that states that parts of the Earth's crust slowly drift atop a liquid core?

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Continental Drift Theory

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What do you call the evidence of Wegener's Theory that tells about the remains of an organism that lived long time ago?

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Fossils

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What do you call the supercontinent landmass formed million years ago?

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Pangaea

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What are the two continents that fit together based on Wegener's Theory? Options: Asia and Russia, India and Asia, South America and Africa, Africa and Asia

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South America and Africa

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Who is credited with developing the theory of continental drift?

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Alfred Wegener

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This is a picture of glacier scars found in Africa. What are these evidence for?

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Africa was once in an area of the Earth that had a very cold climate.

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What does the theory of continental drift state?

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The continents were once joined in a super-continent and have moved over time.

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What type of plate is denser? Options: continental, oceanic

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oceanic

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What type of plate is thicker? Options: continental, oceanic

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continental

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A plate boundary at which two plates move parallel to each other in opposite directions

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transform plate boundary