| Term | Definition |
|---|
| gondwana | late Paleozoic continent that formed the southern portion of Pangaea, consisting of all or parts of present-day South America, Africa, Australia, India, and Antarctica |
| paleozoic | from 544 million to about 230 million years ago |
| pangea | (plate tectonics) a hypothetical continent including all the landmass of the earth prior to the Triassic period when it split into Laurasia and Gondwanaland |
| cenozoic | approximately the last 63 million years |
| angiosperms | flowering plants |
| san andrea fault | a plate and the pacific plate that runs through california |
| continental drift | the gradual movement and formation of continents (as described by plate tectonics) |
| matching fossils | were found on different land masses |
| lithosphere | the solid part of the earth consisting of the crust and outer mantle |
| convergent boundary | a plate boundary where two plates move toward each other |
| transform fault boundary | boundary formed where two lithpospheric plates slide past each other |
| divergent boundary | a plate boundary where two plates move away from each other |
| plates | Large section of Earth's oceanic or continental crust and rigid upper mantle that moves around on the asthenoshpere |
| supercontinet | A landmass formed by the collision and joining of several continental landmasses into a single, large continet. |
| plate tectonics theory | Theory that great slabs or plates of Earth's outer layer float on a hot, semi-molten mantle. All plates are moving slowly and have rafted continents to new positions over time. |
| asthenosphere | the lower layer of the crust |
| rigid | fixed and unmoving |
| mantle | a sleeveless garment like a cloak but shorter |
| technology | the practical application of science to commerce or industry |
| glacier | a slowly moving mass of ice |
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