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During the time of Pangaea

All (Organisms lived side -by side that are now fossils on distant continents, there was no Atlantic Ocean, There was one magnetic north poll.)

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Everything across the seafloor, scientists find

increasing crust thickness toward the mid-ocean ridges

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How did Wegener explain the presence of Mesosaurus fossils on Africa and South America?

The continents were joined when Messosaurus lived and then moved apart

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The lithosphere

is brittle

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Which process move heat from the warmer to cooler places until all are the same temperature?

Conduction

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