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| 1-12 of 12Continental drift flashcard sets | |||
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| # | Title | Terms | Date |
| 1 | Plate Boundaries and Continental Drift -2by stewsci | 37 terms | November 6, 2009 |
| 2 | Land Formsby geo_96 | 45 terms | March 9, 2009 |
| 3 | Continental Driftby yely8008 | 9 terms | October 23, 2009 |
| 4 | Plate Tectonics & Continental Driftby jaskipke | 36 terms | June 8, 2009 |
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| 5 | Science / Chapter 4by Jaybear | 8 terms | November 2, 2008 |
| 6 | Geology-Continental Driftby Grade8CarrollScience | 9 terms | November 18, 2009 |
| 7 | Continental Drift by naomitwins | 3 terms | September 24, 2008 |
| 8 | Platesby penguin56 | 3 terms | May 15, 2009 |
| 9 | Continental Driftby 991787 | 2 terms | October 6, 2008 |
| 10 | Continental driftby JustinKieffer | 13 terms | April 1, 2008 |
| 11 | Continental Driftby dworkowitzg | 11 terms | December 19, 2007 |
| 12 | Continental drift and the platesby hhermans | 19 terms | March 19, 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) | 39 sets | |
| 2 | the hypothesis that the continents slowly move across earth's surface | 26 sets | |
| 3 | theory that states that there was a supercontinent that split into the continents of today | 19 sets | |
| 4 | the hypothesis that the continents slowly move across earth's surface. | 12 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 | sea-floor spreading | 5 sets | |
| 9 | the hypothesis that earth's continents move on earth's surface | 5 sets | |
| 10 | the hypothesis that states that the continents once formed a single landmass, broke up, and drifted to their present locations. | 5 sets | |
| 11 | wegener's idea that the continents slowly moved over earth's surface | 5 sets | |
| 12 | the very slow movement of the continents | 5 sets | |
| 13 | 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 | |
| 14 | fit of continents; fossil distributions; evidence for continental scale glaciation | 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 theory of how earth's continents move over its surface | 4 sets | |
| 17 | the very slow motion of the continents | 4 sets | |
| 18 | hypothesis that continents moved slowly to their current locations (alfred wegener, 1912) | 4 sets | |
| 19 | the theory that continents can drift apart from one another and have done so in the past | 4 sets | |
| 20 | the process by which earth's plates slowly move across the upper mantle | 4 sets | |
| 21 | the theory that the continents were once joined and then slowly drifted apart | 4 sets | |
| 22 | the idea that the continents slowly moved over earth's surface | 3 sets | |
| 23 | the slow movement of the continental plates across earth's surface | 3 sets | |
| 24 | the theory that the continents of the earth move across the earth on giant tectonic plates. | 3 sets | |
| 25 | theory that continents drift apart | 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 theory that continents have drifted around the face of the earth. | 3 sets | |
| 28 | theory of how earth's continents have moved over time | 3 sets | |
| 29 | a hypothesis that proved that all the continents were once joined together in a single landmass and have since drifted apart. (pangaea) | 2 sets | |
| 30 | is the theory that contients can dift apart from one another and have done so in the past. | 2 sets | |
| 31 | all the continents were once together as the land masses called pangaea, laurasia, and gondewana | 2 sets | |
| 32 | slow, continous movements of earth's crustal plates | 2 sets | |
| 33 | theory that suggests that the earth's crust is composed of several continental plates that have the ability to move. first proposed by a. snider in 1858 and developed by f.b. taylor (1908) and alfred wegener (1915). | 2 sets | |
| 34 | hypothesis that continents slowly move across earth's surface | 2 sets | |
| 35 | the movement of earth's land masses over earth's surface through geologic time | 2 sets | |
| 36 | wegener's hypothesis that continents move slowly across earth;s surface | 2 sets | |
| 37 | the hypothesis that earth's continents move on earth's surface. | 2 sets | |
| 38 | states that continents moved horizontally to current locations | 2 sets | |
| 39 | the very slow movement of continents | 2 sets | |
| 40 | a concept suggesting that continents move over the earth's surface. | 2 sets | |