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13 Cards in this Set
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Pangea
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All land
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Wegner found that...
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continents match below sea level
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Mesosaurus was found in
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Africa and South America
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Land Bridge
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There was no evidence of this
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Appalacheon Mountains
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The rocks where these mountains had once been together were the same
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Paleo Climate
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Old climate-Wegner looked at this
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Africa was an ancient glacier area
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Evidence of Pangea was located near the South Pole
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Wegner died in...
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1930 in Greenland unaware he was correct.
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Plate tectonics was named in the...
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1960s for Wegners theory
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Seafloor Spreading
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The earths mantle pushes and pulls the continents apart creating new oceanic crust
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Divergent Boundaries
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Plates move apart and new lithosphere is created
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Convergent Boundaries
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Plates come together and one is recycled back into the mantle
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Transform-fault Boundaries
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Plates slide horizontally past eachother
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