Plate Tectonics

Idea or theory that all landmasses were connected and called Pangaea or the...

• Big one

• Mother Earth

• Supercontinent

• First Earth

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Scientists believe Earth's continents are _______, or gradually moving.

• drifting

• floating

• skating

• dancing

The pieces of Earth's crust and uppermost mantle are referred to as _________ or lithosphere.

• dinner plates

• lunch plates

• snack plates

• tectonic plates

Evidence from rocks and _______ make clear how Earth's plates have moved great distances.

• fossils

• bones

• minerals

• water

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Scientists believe Earth's ______ are drifting, or gradually moving.

• crust

• core

• continents

• oceans

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Evidence of life millions of years ago.

• houses

• writings

• pictures

• fossils

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Describes the movements of tectonic plates over long periods of time.

• Tokyo Drift

• San Andreas Drift

• Continental Drift

• Oceanic Drift

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Consists of the crust and part of the mantle.

• lithosphere

• core

• asthenosphere

• mantle

Circular movements through the mantle.

• wind currents

• convection currents

• ocean currents

• mid-Atlantic currents

Before rock and fossil evidence, scientists observed this that led them to think continents were joined.

• weathering and erosion

• oceans becoming smaller

• continents looking like puzzle pieces

• climate changes