A | B |
Pangaea | super continent/ all land |
convection current | rising, cooling, sinking of fluid |
drift | slow movement of plates |
Wegener | started drift theory |
fossils and rock types | clues of drift |
seafloor spreading | theory of magma changes in ocean |
age of rock and magnetic fields | clues of spreading |
techtonics | crust is broken and moves |
lithosphere | part of crust and upper mantle |
fault | boundary of 2 or more plates |
asthenosphere | upper mantal |
divergent | plates move apart |
plates | sections of earth's crust |
magma | molten rock under surface of earth |
oceanic plate | more dense, thinner plate under water |
strike-slip | plates slide by one another |
convergent | plates move toward one another |
subduction | more dense plate moves under another |
Hess | started theory of seafloor spreading |
inner core | solid layer of center of earth |
outer core | innermost liquid layer of earth |
control | comparison in an experiment |
independent variable | what you change in an experiment |
dependent variable | the measured outcome of an experiment |
constant | doesn't change |