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Alfred Wegener became famous
for his theory called? |
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| The super continent was named? |
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| What records/proof was used to support the existence of the super continent? |
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| Matching fossils, rocks, ice locations, and the outline of the shape of the continents |
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| Remnant Magnestism results from? |
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Rocks acquiring the Earth's magnetic field
when they cool |
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| The Polarity of the of the Earth's magnetic field refers to? |
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| The location of the Earth's north and south magnetic poles |
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| What records help support the idea of sea floor spreading? |
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- Age of sea floor
- Sea floor sediment thicken away from the ridges
- Valleys running down the center of the ridges
- Polarity stripes on the sea floor
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The Earth is an onion?
T or F |
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| The compositional layers of the Earth are called? |
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| The physical aspects of the lithosphere are? |
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| Cold, brittle, strong, and less dense |
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| Divergent plate boundaries are places where? |
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| Lithospheric plates move away from each other |
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| the location of the down turning of the lithosphere (trench) |
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| Lots of iron and lil bit of nickel |
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| Transform Fault characteristics: |
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abundant and shallow earthquakes
sheer stress
no volcanism |
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| force per unit area or the push or pull of a rock |
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| the measure of change and the shape to a stressed material |
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| The sea floor spreading rate is? |
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| Elastic rebound theory is? |
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| the build of energy (bending of rocks under stress) the release of energy through rupture |
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| Distanced between 2 wave crest? |
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