Plate Boundaries and Movement

A theory stating that the earth's surface is broken into plates that move.

• . Alfred Wegner

• tectonic theory

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The first scientist to suggest Pangaea existed

• Batman

• Alfred Wegner

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Plates of the earth that move due to convection currents

• plate tectonics

• Pangea

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Evidence that fossils of the same species show up in areas separated by large oceans today

• Fossil Distribution

• tectonic

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A supercontinent containing all of Earth's land that existed about 225 million years ago.

• Pangea

• Batman

• tectonic plate

• continental collision

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a sudden and violent shaking of the ground, sometimes causing great destruction, as a result of movements within the earth's crust or volcanic action.

• earthquake

• rubble dust

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Formed by two continental plates colliding and forcing each other upwards

• mountains

• trench

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Breaks in Earth's crust where rocks have slipped past each other.

• Faults

• trench

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A deep, steep-sided canyon in the ocean floor.

• trench

• submersion zone

The process that creates new sea floor as plates move away from each other at the mid-ocean ridges

• seafloor spreading

• submersion creation

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