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280-230 million years ago, all continents were all pushed together into one big continent called Pangea.  Then, as the tectonic plates pushed apart, like when a three-pronged fissure grew between Africa, the The continents spread out and formed 7 continents.  This Theory was part of the continental drift, a theory of a certain German, Alfred Wegener, that would later make him famous.

Climate zones are very either cold, and often near poles (North and South) or very warm (tropics, equator.)

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Alfred Wegener: The man who came up with the continental drift hypothesis

Pangea: a supercontinent that contained all of today's continents, but they spread out

Continental drift is Wegener's theory the gradual movement of the continents across the earth's surface through geological time

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Seafloor spreading and Mantle convection  (6.2)

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Seafloor spreading and Mantle convection  (6.2)

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Mantle convection is why tectonic plates' movement even exists at all.  Mantle convection pushes the plates away and closer to each other causing Earthquakes and volcanoes forming.

Seafloor spreading is almost an expansion on continental drift, which give a better understanding of volcanoes and Earthquakes.  The seafloor spreads and opens up land for Earthquakes, and collides to form mountains, volcanoes and ridges.  This was Harry Hammond Hess's theory that shifting moved by the sea. Not bad for a WW2 scientist.

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Sea Floor Spreading & Plate Tectonic Evidence

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convection cell: Hot material rises and cool material sinks in a circular pattern.

seafloor spreading: Mechanism for moving continents. The formation of new seafloor at spreading ridges pushes lithospheric plates on the Earth’s surface.

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Lithospheric Plates and Using Earthquakes (6.3)

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Lithospheric Plates and Using Earthquakes (6.3)

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Scientists use Earthquakes as a device to discover more about tectonic plates.  The Earthquake's epicenter acts as a device to assist with this process.

Lithospheric plates are regions of Earth's crust and upper mantle, that move across other, deeper parts of the mantle. There are approximately 20 Lithospheric plates on Earth.

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• epicenter: Point on the Earth’s surface directly above the focus of the earthquake. • plate: Slab of Earth’s lithosphere that can move around on the planet’s surface.
• seismometer: Equipment that measures seismic waves and other ground motions.

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Tectonic plates move about 2 inches per year or the rate your fingernails grow at.  The plates move as magma convects, when it rises ,cools, goes horizontally, and sinks, This makes a pattern of a convection cell, which is the pattern of the convection.

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convection cell: Hot material rises and cool material sinks in a circular pattern.

seafloor spreading: Mechanism for moving continents. The formation of new seafloor at spreading ridges pushes lithospheric plates on the Earth’s surface.

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The plate tectonics theory and plate boundaries (6.5)

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The plate tectonics theory and plate boundaries (6.5)

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The theory of plate tectonics is what brings together continental drift and seafloor spreading.  The theory also proves that Pangea in fact did exist, based on the way the plates moved.  The plates move because of seafloor spreading, and it pulls the ideas together.

Where two plates come together is a plate boundary.  The 3 types of boundaries are Convergent (together) Divergent (away) and they can slide past each other.

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Lithospheric plates are regions of Earth's crust and upper mantle that are fractured into plates that move across a deeper plasticine mantle
• plate boundary: Location at which two plates come together.
Plate Tectonics are what puts continental drift together with seafloor spreading, with plates that move on convection cells

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