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| Who proposed Continental Drift Hypothesis? |
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| Define Continental Drift hypothesis |
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| Belief that the Earth was once one huge landmass, a supercontinent known as Pangea |
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| Alfred Wegned could not explain |
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| Mechanism of how continenetal drift worked |
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| Individuals who dig for fossils all over the world |
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| Types of locations where palentologists dig for fossils |
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- Tundras
- Desserts
- Underground Caverns
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| Evidence for Continental Drifting |
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- Matching Mountain Ranges
- Fitting Continents together
- Fossils
- Climate Chage
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| Seafloor Spreading explains |
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| The Mechanism that allows Wegener's Continental Drift Hypothesis |
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| Evidence for Seafloor Spreading |
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| Study of the alignment of magnetic minerals in rocks. |
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| How does Paleomagnetism proove Seafloor Spreading |
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| Using this method they are able to see how old rocks are, this lead them to find that rocks near the midocean ridge are younger than those farther away |
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| Rocks near the midocean ridge are younger or older than rocks farther away |
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| What causes Seafloor Spreading |
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| Convection currents in the Astenosphere |
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| Three types of Plate Boundaries |
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- Convergent/Destructive
- Divergent/Constructive
- Tranform
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| Define Convergent Plate Boundaries |
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| Plates collide and destroy sea floor |
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| Define Divergent Plate Boundaries |
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| Plates seperate and form sea floor |
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| Define Transform Plate Boundaries |
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| Plates slide past eachother |
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| Example of Transform Plate Boundary |
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| What is the first sphere of Earth? |
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| What is the second sphere of Earth? |
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| What is third sphere of Earth? |
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| What is the fourth sphere of Earth? |
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| What is the fifth sphere of Earth? |
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| Why plates move, how plates move, and the formations generated by plate movement |
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| What occurs when Oceanic and Continental plates collide? |
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| Subduction occurs and volcanic mountains and trenches form |
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| When water flows under Earth and forms trenches |
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| Subduction takes place when |
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| Oceanic Plate collides with Continental Plate and when Oceanic Plate collides with Oceanic Plate |
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| What occurs when two Continental Plates collide? |
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| Folded Mountains are formed |
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| What occurs when two Oceanic Plates collide? |
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| Causes subduction and forms trenches and islands |
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| A balancing act between gravity pushing down on the lithosphere and the buoyancy of the mantle |
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| What does Isostasy cause? |
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| What is the bending of rocks? |
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- Compression
- Tension
- Shearing
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| Rocks are pushed in opposite directions being pulled in opposite directions being pulled in latical directions |
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- Anticlines
- Synclines
- Monoclines
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| Bends upward, old rock in middle |
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| Bends downward, youngest rock in middle |
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- Normal Fault
- Reverse Fault
- Lateral Fault
- Thrust Fault
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| Hanging wall moves downward from Foot Wall |
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| Normal Faults occur during what? |
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| Faults that form from Shearing |
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| Block above the fault line |
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| Block below the Fault Line |
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| What happens in a thrust fault? |
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| Hanging Wall moves up and over the Foot Wall, happens due to compression |
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