Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics

The idea that explained how continents moved over time 

• Continental Drift

• Pangea

• Plate Tectonics Theory

• Plate Boundaries

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A German scientist who first had the idea of continental drift.

• Albert Einstein

• Galileo

• Alfred Wegener

• Gladys West

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The name of the supercontinent before they moved to where the continents are today. 

• Continental Drift

• Pangea

• Super Country

• United States of America

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The year Wegener first had the idea for continental drift

• 1975

• 1950

• 1888

• 1912

The decade when other scientists started believing Wegener

• 1940's

• 1950's

• 1960's

• 1970's

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The scientific theory that describes how the Earth’s crust (and upper mantle) is divided into plates that can move (very slowly).  

• Continental Drift

• Pangea

• Plate Tectonics Theory

• Plate Boundaries

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The places where tectonic plates (big pieces of crust) meet together

• Continental Drift

• Pangea

• Plate Tectonics Theory

• Plate Boundaries

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The tectonic plates move apart

• Convergent Boundary

• Divergent Boundary

• Transform Boundary

• Personal Boundary

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The tectonic plates move together

• Convergent Boundary

• Divergent Boundary

• Transform Boundary

• Personal Boundary

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The tectonic plates slide past.

• Convergent Boundary

• Divergent Boundary

• Transform Boundary

• Personal Boundary

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