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13 Cards in this Set
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Reptile fossil found in America and Africa.
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Glossopteris
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Fossil plant found in Africa, Australia, India, South America, and Antarctica.
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Mesosaurus
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Clues that support continental drift.
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Fossils, climate, and rock
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Mountains similiar to those in Greenland and Europe.
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Appalachians
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What Wegener called all the continents together.
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Pangaea
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Slow movement of continents.
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Glacial Deposits
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Evidence that Africa was once cold.
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Continental Drift
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Plasticlike layer of the earth.
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Asthenosphere
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Rigid layer of earth about100 km. thick.
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Lithosphere
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A large section of earth's crust,
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Plate
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Earth's upper and lower mantl are broken into parts.
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Plate Tectonics
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Who discovered sea floor spreading.
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Hess
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Who discovered Pangaea.
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Wegener
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