Science 7: Plate Tectonics
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- Q1supercontinentNorth AmericaAsiaPangea45s
- Q2The hypothesis that states the continents once formed a single landmass, broke up, and drifted to their present locationsclimate changetheorycontinental drift45s
- Q3evidence that continents moveclimate clues, fossil clues, rock clues45s
- Q4Used for support of continental drift, this clue showed warm weather plants in Arctic regions.climate cluesroad mapsPangea45s
- Q5Fossils of similar organisms have been found on several continents separated by oceanspaleontologistpolarityfossil clues45s
- Q6Used for support of continental drift, this clue showed similar mountain structures on different continents. Ex: The Appalachian Mts. matching the mountains of Western Europe.continental driftmid ocean ridgerock clues45s
- Q7vast continents that split from PangeaAsiaLaurasia and GondwanaCanada45s
- Q8A scientist who studies fossilsveterinarianpaleontologistastronomer45s
- Q9An undersea mountain chain where the new ocean floor is produced; a divergent plate boundary.sea floor spreadingrock cluesmid ocean ridge45s
- Q10the process by which new oceanic crust forms along a mid-ocean ridge and older oceanic crust moves away from the ridgenormal polarityseafloor spreadingplate tectonics45s
- Q11a state in which magnetized objects, such as compass needles, will orient themselves to point northnormal polaritymagnetic reversalreversed polarity45s
- Q12a switch in the direction of Earth's magnetic field so that the magnetic north pole becomes the magnetic south pole and the magnetic south pole becomes the magnetic north pole.lithosphereplate tectonicsmagnetic reversal45s
- Q13a state in which magnetized objects would reverse direction and orient themselves to point southplate tectonicsreversed polaritysubduction45s
- Q14A theory stating that the earth's surface is broken into plates that move.rock cluesplate tectonicsridge push45s
- Q15cold, rigid outermost rock layer of Earthstratospheretransform plate boundarylithosphere45s