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earth movements
-
continental drift
- super continent pangea
- ocean tethys
- several smaller continents
- Alfred Wagner
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bases
- east coast of South America and west coast of Africa fit together
- tropical regions had polar conditions
- fossils in different continents same
- rock deposits and minerals same in continents
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sea floor movement
- sea floor movement away from ridges due to underwater magma
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plate tectonics
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mountains
-
mountain
- fault mountains
- when two plates clash
- fold mountains
- inside the continent
- when floor between two places sink
- synclinal valleys
- horst-higher part
- graben-lower part
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mountain range
- many mountains
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mountain belt
- a collection of mountain ranges
- volcanoes
- earthquakes
-
structure
-
core
-
inner core
- depth-5100
- iron
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outer core
- depth-2900
- iron
- 10%sulphur
- 3000*C
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mantle
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lower mantle
- depth-670
- iron,magnesium,aliminium,silica,oxygen silicate
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upper mantle
- base of crust
- asthenosphere-100-200km
- iron,magnesium,aliminium,silica
- 83% of volume of earth
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crust
-
oceanic crust
-
SiMa
- 40% silica
- 40% magnesium
- 20% iron
- 5-10 km
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continental crust
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SiAl
- 40% silica
- 40% aliminium
- 20% iron
- granite rocks
- 50-70 km