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1Plate Boundaries and Continental Drift -2by stewsci37 termsNovember 6, 2009
2Land Formsby geo_9645 termsMarch 9, 2009
3Continental Driftby yely80089 termsOctober 23, 2009
4Plate Tectonics & Continental Driftby jaskipke36 termsJune 8, 2009
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5Science / Chapter 4by Jaybear8 termsNovember 2, 2008
6Geology-Continental Driftby Grade8CarrollScience9 termsNovember 18, 2009
7Continental Drift by naomitwins3 termsSeptember 24, 2008
8Platesby penguin563 termsMay 15, 2009
9Continental Driftby 9917872 termsOctober 6, 2008
10Continental driftby JustinKieffer13 termsApril 1, 2008
11Continental Driftby dworkowitzg11 termsDecember 19, 2007
12Continental drift and the platesby hhermans19 termsMarch 19, 2008
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continental drift definitions
# Definition Sets
1the gradual movement and formation of continents (as described by plate tectonics)39 sets
2the hypothesis that the continents slowly move across earth's surface26 sets
3theory that states that there was a supercontinent that split into the continents of today19 sets
4the hypothesis that the continents slowly move across earth's surface.12 sets
5motion of continents about earth's surface on plates of crust floating on the hot mantle7 sets
6continents have moved slowly to their current locations6 sets
7the hypothesis that states that the continents once formed a single landmass, broke up, and drifted to their present locations6 sets
8sea-floor spreading5 sets
9the hypothesis that earth's continents move on earth's surface5 sets
10the hypothesis that states that the continents once formed a single landmass, broke up, and drifted to their present locations.5 sets
11wegener's idea that the continents slowly moved over earth's surface5 sets
12the very slow movement of the continents5 sets
13wegner'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
14fit of continents; fossil distributions; evidence for continental scale glaciation4 sets
15a 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 positions4 sets
16the theory of how earth's continents move over its surface4 sets
17the very slow motion of the continents4 sets
18hypothesis that continents moved slowly to their current locations (alfred wegener, 1912)4 sets
19the theory that continents can drift apart from one another and have done so in the past4 sets
20the process by which earth's plates slowly move across the upper mantle4 sets
21the theory that the continents were once joined and then slowly drifted apart4 sets
22the idea that the continents slowly moved over earth's surface3 sets
23the slow movement of the continental plates across earth's surface3 sets
24the theory that the continents of the earth move across the earth on giant tectonic plates.3 sets
25theory that continents drift apart3 sets
26a 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
27the theory that continents have drifted around the face of the earth.3 sets
28theory of how earth's continents have moved over time3 sets
29a hypothesis that proved that all the continents were once joined together in a single landmass and have since drifted apart. (pangaea)2 sets
30is the theory that contients can dift apart from one another and have done so in the past.2 sets
31all the continents were once together as the land masses called pangaea, laurasia, and gondewana2 sets
32slow, continous movements of earth's crustal plates2 sets
33theory 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
34hypothesis that continents slowly move across earth's surface2 sets
35the movement of earth's land masses over earth's surface through geologic time2 sets
36wegener's hypothesis that continents move slowly across earth;s surface2 sets
37the hypothesis that earth's continents move on earth's surface.2 sets
38states that continents moved horizontally to current locations2 sets
39the very slow movement of continents2 sets
40a concept suggesting that continents move over the earth's surface.2 sets