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Pangaea, Plates and Continental Drift
Pangaea, Plates and Continental Drift
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Pangeae means...
Pieces of the Earth
Super Earth
All Earth
Beneath Earth
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What did he develop?
The San Andreas Fault
Concept of Statistical Mechanics
Oxygen Theory of Combustion
1st theory of continental drift
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What is pangaea?
A dish originating in Spain, made of rice and seafood
When Indo-Australian plate collides with Eurasian plate
Giant "super continent" existing over 200 million years ago
Formation of rift- valleys
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The Continental Crust is...
newer
less dense
made of basalt
more dense
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Which plate boundaries formed the Himalayan Mountains?
Transformation
Convergent
Divergent
Pangeal
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Earthquates are caused by this type of plate boundary...
Sliding
Plateletes
Divergent
Convergent
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Oceanic Crust is...
more dense
less dense
20-30 miles thick
made mostly of granite
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Who is pictured?
Antonio Banderas
William Penn
Albert Einstein
Alfred Wegener
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Divergent/ "Dividing" plate boundaries....
Cause earthquakes
Forms rift valleys
Created the San Andreas Fault
Forms mountains
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Subduction =
Mountains
Volcanoes
Hot weather
Thunderstorms
