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Title: Plate Tectonics


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Plate Tectonics
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Tectonic Plates
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Plate Tectonics
  • Fit together like jigsaw puzzles
  • Float on top of mantle similar to ice cubes in a
    bowl of water

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Continental Drift
Alfred Wegener 1900s Continents were once a
single land mass that drifted apart. Fossils of
the same plants and animals are found on
different continents Called this supercontinent
Pangea, Greek for all Earth 245 Million years
ago Split again Laurasia Gondwana 180
million years ago
http//members.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astr
onomy/planets/earth/Continents.shtml
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Evidence of Pangea
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