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Final Exam Study Guide and Practice Questions
Earth Science Final Exam Study Guide
and Practice Questions
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Pangaea
the name given to the early super-continent
continental drift
a hypothesis that Earth's continents had once been joined as a single landmass
magnetometer
a device that can detect small changes in magnetic fields
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paleomagnetism
the study of the magnetic record of the seafloor
magnetic reversal
a change in Earth's magnetic field
isochron
a line on a map that connects points that have the same age
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seafloor spreading
a theory that states the new ocean crust is formed at ocean ridges and destroyed at deep-
sea trenches
plate tectonics
a theory that states the Earth's crust is broken in to enormous slabs called plates
divergent boundaries
places where two tectonic plates are moving apart
rift valley
when continental crust begins to separate that stretched crust forms a long narrow
depression
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