chapter 3 module c review
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- Explain how convection currents could cause tectonic plates to pull apart.
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- A marsupial that is well adapted to survival in the Americas is the _______.
- opposum
- The theory of continental drift was developed by ___.
- Alfred Wegener
- The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is a result of _____________.
- the movement of the plates pulling away from each other.
- The theory of plate tectonics provides an explanation for ________.
- The Great Rift Valley
- Sections of the eath's lithosphere meet at areas known as ____________.
- plate boundaries
- A pattern of heating and cooling froms a current of air that is called _____.
- convection current
- The teeth of Horner's baby maisaurs were worn down. This was evidence that the babies _______________.
- had not just hatched
- Compared to the babies of placental mammals, marsupial mammals are born _______.
- less well-developed
- Two continents whose facing coastlines match like puzzle pieces are _____________.
- Africa and South America
- Evidence of continental drift is provided by the fossil remains of the ___________.
- mesosaur
- Some animals that are cold-blooded _______________.
- take over a year to double in size
- Of the following animals, the one which is a placental mammal is the kangaroo, opossum, wombat, or dog.
- dog
- About 275 million years agao, Australia was p art of the supercontinent known as ___.
- Pangaea
- Explain why marsupial animals did not survive as well as placental animals in South America.
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