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What is the crust
100
Name of the German scientist that created the theory of Continental Drift
Alfred Wegener
100
This grinding of tectonic plates moving against each other produces sudden movements of the Earth's crust called
Earthquakes
100
Earthquakes and Volcanoes are usually located in relation to these
What is a plate boundary
100
An area of tall grasses and scattered trees and shrubs
What are Savannas
200
A number of rigid, but moving, pieces of Earth's surface
What is tectonic plates.
200
The name of the supercontinent that was believed to have existed 250 million years ago
What is Pangaea
200
Evidence of matching animal fossils from two separate continents _____________________ and _____________________
What is Africa and South America
200
______________________ is classified by temperature, precipitation, and plant life
What is climate
200
Climate that occurs south of the Arctic Ocean.
What is subarctic climate
300
The theory that all continents are fragments of Pangaea now drifting apart
What is the Continental Drift Theory
300
Climate, Fossils and Landform can all be used by scientists for _____________________
What is Evidence for Continental Drift
300
Evidence of tropical plants were found on this continent
What is Antarctica
300
Geographers divide the hemisphere into five general climate zones
What is tropical, temperate, polar, dry and highland
300
Is the coldest climate on Earth and there is little precipitation and little vegetation
What is Ice Cap climates
400
The thinnest and top layer of the Earth, on which the continents are located
What is the crust
400
When ocean plates and mountain plates collide they create __________________________
What are mountain ranges
400
Pangaea existed this many millions of years ago
What is around 250 million years ago
400
Occur near the equator, in the low latitudes
What is tropical climates
400
Climate zone that experiences four distinct seasons – hot summers, cold winters, springs and falls
What is temperate climate zone
500
Shapes on the planet’s surface
What are landforms
500
As plates move apart, gaps between the plates allow magma, a liquid rock from the planet’s interior to rise to Earth’s crust and form ________________________
Volcanoes
500
By about 200 million years ago, the supercontinent, Pangaea began to
What is move
500
Winds that shift directions and create wet and dry seasons.
What are monsoons
500
Rain Forests are found in the _____________________ climate zone