EARTH SCIENCE
TECTONICS
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Question
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Which statement is NOT evidence of the plate tectonic theory?
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Fossils of the same animals are found on different continents.
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The continents fit together like pieces of a puzzle.
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Similar weather patterns exist on different continents.
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Mountain chains line up along the edges of continents.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Answer and Explanation: The statement that is not correct is that E. new oceanic crust is formed at transform plate boundaries. At transform plate boundaries the lithospheric plates that form it, slide past each other along the horizontal plane.
Detailed explanation-2: -Sea floor spreading Was this answer helpful?
Detailed explanation-3: -Evidence from fossils, glaciers, and complementary coastlines helps reveal how the plates once fit together.
Detailed explanation-4: -They based their idea of continental drift on several lines of evidence: fit of the continents, paleoclimate indicators, truncated geologic features, and fossils.
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