Continental Drift

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Pangaea means

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all the land

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What are the benefits of knowing about continental drift?

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We can visit Pangaea, mapped oceanic ridges, mapped earthquake sites, mapped astrological star patterns. The correct answer is mapped earthquake sites.

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Wegener wrote a book called

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On the Origins of Continents and Oceans

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Fossil records support continental drift.

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True

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Ridges are the sites where plates move

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apart

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What is continental drift?

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The theory that continents have moved over geological time and were once joined together.

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Who proposed the theory of continental drift?

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Alfred Wegener

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What evidence supports the theory of continental drift?

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Fossil records, geological similarities, and the fit of the continents.

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What is the significance of oceanic ridges?

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They are sites where tectonic plates move apart and new oceanic crust is formed.

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What is a tectonic plate?

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A large slab of solid rock that makes up the Earth's lithosphere.