- A steep sided cone-shaped mountain built up by layers of lava and pyroclastics
- where is the source of heat that drives the currents LOCATED
- who noticed that all of the other continents seemed to fit together in 1915
- what was the first true continents
- what large mass started t split apart 180 million years ago
- where is the old crust located during seafloor spreading
- what happened to south and north poles overtime
- What eventually comes from plate motion
- Very large division of geologic time; usually longer than an era
- Bending of light as it moves from one substance to another of different density
- A measure of the average kinetic energy of the individual atoms or molecules of a substance
- The portion of the sun's output of electromagnetic radiation that is received by Earth at the outermost part of our atmosphere
- A concept that states that sedimentary rocks and some extrusive igneous rocks such as lava flows, form in horizontal layers parallel to Earth's surface
- The idea that the physical, chemical, and biological laws that operate today also operated in the past
- Light winds that blow from the water to the land
- The process by which light bounces off a surface or a materia
- The transfer of heat through matter by molecular activity. The energy of molecules is transferred by collisions from one molecule to another
- The arrangement of electromagnetic radiation according to wavelength
- Permeable rock layers or sediments that transmit groundwater freely are called ____.
- The process of matching rock layers at different locations that formed at the same time and by the same processes