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Plate Tectonics and Taxonomy Review

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Horizontales
The supercontinent scientists once think existed.
The broadest level of our classification where organisms have only the most basic similarities.
The idea that the continents drifted from their original positions, based on evidence of animal remains.
The simple two part Latin names given to organism to keep all scientists on the same page.
The science of classifying living things.
Areas where new sea floor is created because plates are drifting apart.
The layer that the plates float on. It contains the magma vented by volcanoes.
Verticales
The marriage of several scientific concepts to explain the movement of plates.
The Swedish scientist who simplified taxonomy giving us our modern naming system.
An area away from a plate boundary where magma breaks through creating island chains.
Areas where the denser oceanic plates sink under and are recycled in the mantle often causing volcanic activity.
The crust is broken into these segments that move.
The solid thin outmost layer of the Earth.
The most narrow part of our taxonomy. A unique group of individuals that can interbreed and produce fertile offspring.