| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Glossopteris fossils | there located in rocks about 250 million years old, there also found in south africa, australia, india amd antarctica |
| folded mountains | is a mountain that forms as continental crust crumples and bends into folds |
| coal deposits | Ancint tropical forests produced these coal deposits wich seem to have ones been connected |
| plates | Large section of Earth's oceanic or continental crust and rigid upper mantle that moves around on the asthenoshpere |
| diverging boundaries | two plates move away from each other; molten rock rises to fill the gap, creating new crust (rift valley) |
| converging boundaries | two plates move toward each other |
| transform boundary | boundary between two plates that are sliding past each other |
| mountain building | a result of several processes |
| folds | a bend in rock that forms where part of Earth's crust is compressed |
| faults | fracturing of rock followed by the movement of two sides of the fracture relative to one another |
| fossils | the perserved trace, imprint, or remains of a plant or animal |
| paleontologists | study fossil remains to determine the chacteristics of various prehistoric periods |
| strata | The most noticable feature of Sedimentary rock is its layers, or this. |
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