What did Alfred Wegener's theory state?
Continental Drift and Relative Dating

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There once was an original land mass that was composed of all the continents.
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What is the Law of Superposition?
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In any sequence of undisturbed sedimentary rocks, the oldest layers are at the bottom and the youngest layers are at the top.
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What is seafloor spreading?
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A process that occurs at mid-ocean ridges where new oceanic crust forms as the plates move away from one another.
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What was the name of the supercontinent that existed 335 million years ago?
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Pangaea.
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What theory did Alfred Wegener propose?
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The Theory of Continental Drift.
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What is continental drift?
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The movement of the Earth's continents relative to each other.
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What evidence supports the theory of continental drift?
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Fossil distribution, geological similarities, and the fit of continental coastlines.
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