Alfred Wegener - the man who came up with the continental drift hypothesis., hypothesis - tentative explanation to a scientific question that can be tested., meteorologist - scientist who studies the weather and makes weather forecasts., continental margins - submerged, outer edge of the continent; it is the transition zone from land to deep sea where continental crust gives way to oceanic crust., fossil - preserved remains or traces of organisms that lived in the past; can be things like bones or footprints., wind - air that flows over Earth’s surface because of differences in heating of the atmosphere and land., water - simple chemical compound containing two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom (H2O)., rocks - a solid mixture of minerals or mineral grains; a few types of rocks are made from materials that are not minerals., Climate - average weather in a region over a long period of time., planet - a celestial object orbiting a star that has cleared its orbit of smaller objects., equator - line connecting all the points equal distance between the North and South Poles; the zero degree line., Glaciers - large sheets of slow moving, flowing ice., reefs - a large underwater structure created from the calcium carbonate skeletons of coral., latitude - location of a place between the North and South Poles relative to the Equator; marked by imaginary horizontal lines parallel to the equator.,

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