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13 Cards in this Set
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a heat transfer process that involves the movement of energy from one place to another |
Convection current |
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who states that continents are slowly drifting around the Earth |
Alfred Wegener |
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Alfred wegener curiousity |
Edges of south america and africa |
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matchinglarge-scalegeologicalfeaturesondifferent continents. |
Geological fit evedence |
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persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving under its own weight. |
Glaciers |
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Wegener used it as biogeographic evidence for continental drift and land bridging. |
Fossil evidence |
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Known to have been a type of reptile which propelled itself, through the water with its long hind legs and limber tail. -Found solely in South Africa and Eastern South America |
Mesosaurus |
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-Was a mammal-like reptile. Roaming the terrains during the Triassic period. -Was a large as a modern wolf -Found in South Africa and South America |
Cynognathus |
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-Which translate to "shovel reptile".Thought to have been a herbivorewith stout built like a pig.-Found in Antartica, India, and SouthAfrica. |
Lystrosaurus |
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-Consider as important fossil evidence found in the plant. -Found in the Australia, Antartica, India, South Africa and South America. (All southern continents) |
Glossopteris |
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produced new evidence of what the seafloor looked like. |
SONAR |
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American geologist and a United States Navy officer in World War II who is considered one of the "founding fathers" Of the unifying theory of plate tectonics |
Harry Hammond Hess |
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published the theory of seafloor spreading theory |
Harry Hammond Hess |