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Who is Wegener?
What are mountains?
What are convection currents?
What is divergent?
What is a transform boundary?
What is convergent?
What is a rift?
What is less?
What are reversals?
What are sound waves/sonar?
What is Africa?
What are volcanoes?
What are fossils?
What is a subduction zone?
What is the asthenosphere?
Who is Hess?
What is transform?
What are plates?
What are convection currents?
What is mid-ocean ridge?
What are climate clues?
What is the lithosphere?
What are folded mountains?
What is pangaea?
What is continental drift?
Earth's crust and part of the upper mantle are broken into sections
These type of clues are evidence of tropical plants in polar regions and glacial deposits in tropical regions
Boundary where plates move together
Earthquakes and ___________ are common along plate boundaries
The San Andreas fault in California is this type of plate boundary
Mesosaurus fossils were found in South America and ________
Scientist who came up with the hypothesis of continental drift
Magma rises at mid-ocean ridges because it is _______ dense
All the continents were once joined together
Magnetic field ___________ are found on each side of mid-ocean ridges
The driving force behind plate movements
The plastic-like layer that the lithosphere moves on
Two continental plates (similar density) colliding will cause these to form because they
The scientist who came up with the theory of sea floor spreading
The rigid layer where the plates are located
Boundary where plates with different densities collide and the denser plate sinks under the less dense plate
Type of valley left when plates diverge
The location of the youngest rocks on the seafloor
__________ was used to discovered mountain ranges in the middle of many oceans
Differences in temperature cause these types of currents to flow
Boundary where plates move apart
Fault-block ____________ formed at both convergent and divergent plate boundaryies
Boundary where plates slide past each other with little up or down movement
Continents drifted to their current locations
Evidence such as the continents' puzzle-like fit and similar ________ were found on different continents

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Scientist who came up with the hypothesis of continental driftWho is Wegener?
Continents drifted to their current locationsWhat is continental drift?
Evidence such as the continents' puzzle-like fit and similar ________ were found on different continentsWhat are fossils?
These type of clues are evidence of tropical plants in polar regions and glacial deposits in tropical regionsWhat are climate clues?
Mesosaurus fossils were found in South America and ________What is Africa?
The scientist who came up with the theory of sea floor spreadingWho is Hess?
__________ was used to discovered mountain ranges in the middle of many oceansWhat are sound waves/sonar?
Magma rises at mid-ocean ridges because it is _______ denseWhat is less?
The location of the youngest rocks on the seafloorWhat is mid-ocean ridge?
Magnetic field ___________ are found on each side of mid-ocean ridgesWhat are reversals?
Boundary where plates move togetherWhat is convergent?
Boundary where plates move apartWhat is divergent?
Boundary where plates slide past each other with little up or down movementWhat is transform?
Boundary where plates with different densities collide and the denser plate sinks under the less dense plateWhat is a subduction zone?
The driving force behind plate movementsWhat are convection currents?
All the continents were once joined togetherWhat is pangaea?
Earth's crust and part of the upper mantle are broken into sectionsWhat are plates?
The rigid layer where the plates are locatedWhat is the lithosphere?
The plastic-like layer that the lithosphere moves onWhat is the asthenosphere?
Differences in temperature cause these types of currents to flowWhat are convection currents?
Type of valley left when plates divergeWhat is a rift?
Fault-block ____________ formed at both convergent and divergent plate boundaryiesWhat are mountains?
Earthquakes and ___________ are common along plate boundariesWhat are volcanoes?
The San Andreas fault in California is this type of plate boundaryWhat is a transform boundary?
Two continental plates (similar density) colliding will cause these to form because theyWhat are folded mountains?