Continental Drift

The ________ states that parts of Earth's crust slowly drift atop a liquid core.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Alfred Wegener was a _____ and a _______.

• geologist

• scientologist

• meteorologist

• zoologist

Earthquakes are most common around plate boundaries.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Benefits about knowing information regarding continental drift include

• We can visit Pangaea.

• mapped oceanic ridges

• mapped earthquake sites

• mapped astrological star patterns

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Pangaea means "___________"

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The process of continental drift took place over thousands of years.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Wegener wrote a book called

• Pangaea Pages

• All the land and water

• Proposing Pangaea

• On the Origins of Continents and Oceans

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Pangaea first broke into _____ continents. It then separated into the 7 we know today.

The supercontinent that consists of all of Earth's land masses is called ________

Alfred Wegener named Pangaea.

• True

• False