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The _____ of the Earth is further broken into two subregions, the lithosphere and asthenosphere.
Mantle
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The scientist _____ proposed that continents move around the Earth.
Alfred Wegener
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The evidence used to support the continental drift theory, did NOT include:
Weather patterns
4
The _____ is the thinnest layer of the earth.
Crust
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The inner core is primarily made of solid, ____ and ____.
Iron and nickel
6
A ____ is a long, undersea mountain chain with steep, narrow valley as its center.
Mid-ocean Ridge
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The ___ is the only liquid layer on earth.
Outer core
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The center layer of the Earth is the ____.
Inner core
9
New ocean floor is constantly being produced through a process, known as ____.
Sea-floor spreading
10
The layer of plastic rock that underlines the tectonic plates is the ______.
Asthenosphere
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The regional long tectonic plate boundaries were one plate moves beneath another is called a _____.
Subduction zone
12
Two plates grind past each other at a _____.
Transform boundary
13
Convection occurs because he did material becomes ___.
Less dense, and rises
14
The process of a continent, breaking apart is called ___.
Rifting
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Approximately 200 million years ago, all the continents were together as a single, supercontinent called _____.
Pangea
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The ____ was/were formed when the Indian subcontinent crashed into the Asian continent approximately 50 million years ago.
Himalayas
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The single, large ocean that surrounded the world 200 million years ago, was called ____.
Panthalassa
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The ____ is a series of volcanoes that in circle the Pacific Ocean.
Ring of fire
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Mountain chains are formed when two continental plates interact at a ____.
Convergent boundary
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Continents grow in size when a convergent boundary causes a ___ to run into a continent.
Terrane