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Antonio Ortellius - Answer-noticed that North and South American coastlines kind of matched Europe
and Africa; proposed that these continents split in the past



Francis Bacon - Answer-British philosopher



Antonio Snider-Pellegrini - Answer-published his ideas on catastrophic continental movements; French
cartographer



Alfred Wegener - Answer-meteorologist/geophysicist; published the idea of Continental Drift



Continental Drift - Answer-proposes that all continents split from an earlier "supercontinent" called
Pangaea



Pangaea - Answer-means "all land"

, "fit" of continents; matching geology across the Atlantic; distribution of fossils; distribution of living
organisms; ancient climate - Answer-Wegener's evidence for Continental Drift



Bathymetry - Answer-underwater geography



continental shelf; continental margin; abyssal plain; deep ocean trenches; ocean ridge - Answer-
development of sonar showed us what



basalt - Answer-what the ocean floor (deep abyssal plain) is made out of



paleomagnetism - Answer-record of earth's magnetic field trapped in rocks



Harry Hess - Answer-proposed idea of plate tectonics



divergent, convergent, transform - Answer-types of plate boundaries



divergent - Answer-includes oceanic-oceanic boundaries and continental rift valley



convergent - Answer-includes oceanic-continental, oceanic-oceanic, and continental-continental
boundaries



Cascades, Andes - Answer-examples of oceanic-continental convergence



Philippines, Japan, New Zealand - Answer-examples of oceanic-oceanic convergence



transform - Answer-boundaries near ocean ridges, along continents

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