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| 1-11 of 11Continental drift flashcard sets | |||
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| # | Title | Terms | Date |
| 1 | Land Formsby geo_96 | 45 terms | March 9, 2009 |
| 2 | Continental Driftby yely8008 | 9 terms | October 23, 2009 |
| 3 | Plate Tectonics & Continental Driftby jaskipke | 36 terms | June 8, 2009 |
| 4 | Science / Chapter 4by Jaybear | 8 terms | November 2, 2008 |
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| 5 | Platesby penguin56 | 3 terms | May 15, 2009 |
| 6 | Continental Drift by naomitwins | 3 terms | September 24, 2008 |
| 7 | Plate Boundaries and Continental Driftby stewsci | 3 terms | Yesterday |
| 8 | Continental Driftby 991787 | 2 terms | October 6, 2008 |
| 9 | Continental Driftby dworkowitzg | 11 terms | December 19, 2007 |
| 10 | Continental drift and the platesby hhermans | 19 terms | March 19, 2008 |
| 11 | Continental driftby JustinKieffer | 13 terms | April 1, 2008 |
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| continental drift definitions | |||
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| # | Definition | Sets | |
| 1 | the gradual movement and formation of continents (as described by plate tectonics) | 34 sets | |
| 2 | the hypothesis that the continents slowly move across earth's surface | 22 sets | |
| 3 | theory that states that there was a supercontinent that split into the continents of today | 16 sets | |
| 4 | the hypothesis that the continents slowly move across earth's surface. | 11 sets | |
| 5 | motion of continents about earth's surface on plates of crust floating on the hot mantle | 7 sets | |
| 6 | continents have moved slowly to their current locations | 6 sets | |
| 7 | the hypothesis that states that the continents once formed a single landmass, broke up, and drifted to their present locations | 6 sets | |
| 8 | wegner's theory that states that the continents drifted apart. seafloor spreading, rock clues, fossil clues, and climate clues are the evidence for this theory. | 4 sets | |
| 9 | wegener's idea that the continents slowly moved over earth's surface | 4 sets | |
| 10 | fit of continents; fossil distributions; evidence for continental scale glaciation | 4 sets | |
| 11 | the hypothesis that earth's continents move on earth's surface | 4 sets | |
| 12 | the hypothesis that states that the continents once formed a single landmass, broke up, and drifted to their present locations. | 4 sets | |
| 13 | the theory that continents can drift apart from one another and have done so in the past | 4 sets | |
| 14 | the theory of how earth's continents move over its surface | 4 sets | |
| 15 | a hypothesis that originally proposed that the continents had once been joined to form a single supercontinent; the supercontinent broke into several pieces, which drifted to their present day positions | 4 sets | |
| 16 | the very slow movement of the continents | 4 sets | |
| 17 | the very slow motion of the continents | 4 sets | |
| 18 | the movement of earth's land masses over earth's surface through geologic time | 3 sets | |
| 19 | theory of how earth's continents have moved over time | 3 sets | |
| 20 | theory that continents drift apart | 3 sets | |
| 21 | the theory that the continents were once joined and then slowly drifted apart | 3 sets | |
| 22 | the process by which earth's plates slowly move across the upper mantle | 3 sets | |
| 23 | the theory that continents have drifted around the face of the earth. | 3 sets | |
| 24 | the slow movement of the continental plates across earth's surface | 3 sets | |
| 25 | hypothesis that continents moved slowly to their current locations (alfred wegener, 1912) | 3 sets | |
| 26 | a change in the position of continents resulting from the incessant slow motion (floating) of the plates of earth's crust on the underlying molten mantle. it has caused continents to fuse and break apart periodically throughout geologic history. | 3 sets | |
| 27 | the hypothesis that earth's continents move on earth's surface. | 2 sets | |
| 28 | states that continents moved horizontally to current locations | 2 sets | |
| 29 | the very slow movement of continents | 2 sets | |
| 30 | single landmass that broke up into large peices, which have drifted apart | 2 sets | |
| 31 | wegener's hypothesis that continents move slowly across earth;s surface | 2 sets | |
| 32 | slow, continous movements of earth's crustal plates | 2 sets | |
| 33 | the hypothesis that all contents were once joined in a super continent that split apart of over millions of years | 2 sets | |
| 34 | the process by which earth's plates slowly move across the upper mantle. | 2 sets | |
| 35 | all the continents were once together as the land masses called pangaea, laurasia, and gondewana | 2 sets | |
| 36 | the large-scale motion of continents across earth's surface driven by plate tectonics. | 2 sets | |
| 37 | the theory that continents can drift apart from one another and have done so in the past. | 2 sets | |
| 38 | the hypothesis that the continents slowly move across the earth's surface. | 2 sets | |
| 39 | the idea that the continents slowly moved over earth's surface | 2 sets | |
| 40 | the theory that the continents of the earth move across the earth on giant tectonic plates. | 2 sets | |