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What is the theory of continental drift?

The center of the earth is made mostly of

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The center of the earth is made mostly of
sulfur
solid iron
liquid iron
metal
2
What is the theory of continental drift?
Tectonic plates are slowly moving everyday
What are tectonic plates?
When two plates collide
Alfred Wegner
3
Magma is below the Earths crust
True, it is magma
False, it is called lava
4
What evidence supports the theory of Continental Drift?
fossils, plates, and the mantle
glaciers, coal fields, and divergence
fossils, climate, and the atmosphere
fossils, landforms, and glaciers
5
The center of the Earth is called
Mantle
The Outer Core
The Inner Core
Lithosphere
6
Wegener noticed the plates
fit together to form a supercontinent
slide past each other and cause earthquakes
separated and cause seafloor spreading
Mrs. Hawkins is amazing, but I'm lost
7
Who developed the theory of continental drift?
Issac Newton
Einstein
Alfred Wegner
Ryan Seacrest
8
Transform boundaries cause...
convection
volcanoes
mountains
earthquakes
9
Where plates collide, the sliding of a denser ocean plate under another plate.
convergent plate
subduction
seafloor spreading
transform plate
10
Two plates sliding past each other
Convergent Plates
Divergent Plates
Tectonic Plate
Transform Plates
11
New crust forming at ridges in the seafloor
transform
divergent
subduction
seafloor spreading
12
Which tectonic plates are denser?
oceanic plates
continental plates
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The rising of warm matter and the sinking of cooled matter
mantle
heat
subduction
convection current