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Plate Tectonics and Earth's Layers
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| Thinnest Layer of Earth | Crust |
| Thickest layer of Earth | Mantle |
| Hottest layer | Inner Core |
| Pieces of crust that move on the mantle | Tectonic Plates |
| Tectonic Plates fit together like a | Puzzle |
| Hypothesis that continents once formed a single landmass, broke up, and drifted to current places | Continental drift |
| Scientist who believed in Continental Drift | Alfred Wegener |
| Single, huge continent | Pangaea |
| Heat Rises, Cool Mantle Sinks | Convection |
| Fit together best | South America & Africa |
| Has most Earthquakes | Pacific Plate |
| North American Plate | Plate We Live On |
| Discovered the sea floor was spreading | Harry Hess |
| Evidence for Continental Drift | Glaciers, Plant and Animal Fossils, Shape of Continents, Matching Landforms |
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