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-Continental Drift - HYPOTHESIS of the states that the continents formed formed a single land surface broke up and drifted too their locations......
-Plate Tectonics - The result that answers how large the pieces of the lithosphere called the plates,change shape and moves....
-Pangaea - Super-continent that forms 300 millions years ago and began to broke 250 millions years ago......
-Asthenosphere - Solid,plastic layer of the mantle between the lithosphere that mades from tectonics rocks.....
-Lithosphere - Outer layer from earth that relates with the crust and the important upper rigid part of the mantles....
-Mid-Oceanic ridge - The undersea mountain that chain has a steep that forms magma form asthenosphere......