Continental Drift

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  1. 5. upper layer of the earth's mantle
  2. 11. one of the land reptile fossils found along the coast of Africa & India
  3. 13. one of the two countries that especially appear to fit together
  4. 14. what Wegener noticed seemed to fit together
  5. 15. theory where tectonic plates move toward each other
  6. 16. German scientist who hypothesized that at one more more points in history the continents were connected
  7. 17. Wegener found this geological evidence that also led him to believe the continents had been connected
  8. 18. relating to the structure of the earth's crust and processes that take place within it
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  1. 1. theory where tectonic plates move away from each other
  2. 2. freshwater reptile fossils found on costs of South America & South Africa
  3. 3. the rigid outer part of the earth
  4. 4. Continental _______
  5. 6. another word for pangaea
  6. 7. an opening in Earth's crust where magma can reach the planet's surface
  7. 8. center of the earth
  8. 9. another word for "drift" in the term Continental Drift
  9. 10. all of earth's continents were once joined in a supercontinent called this
  10. 12. large land mass
  11. 15. Earth's surface layer