Continental Drift Vocab Review

What is this a picture of?

• plate tectonics
• continental drift
• pangea
• glacier scaring

Who is the person credited with developing the theory of continental drift?

• Harry Hess
• Galileo
• Alfred Wegener
• Newton

Why did no one believe Wegener's thoery?

• He could not explain HOW the continents moved
• He didn't have evidence
• His data was wrong
• He didn't use the right technology to gather data

What is Pangaea?

• the name of a German scientist
• the name of the super-continent that existed millions of years ago
• another name for continental drift
• the name of an ancient fossil

What causes the movement of tectonic plates?

• Gravitational pull between Earth and the moon
• Convection occurring beneath the Earth's crust
• Energy produced by earthquakes within the Earth
• Rotation of liquid rock found within the core

Circular currents in the mantle caused by the magma being heated by the core off the earth

• Lithosphere
• Plate Tectonics 
• Convection Currents
• Dynamo Effect

Earth's crust is broken into large pieces called

• Continents
• Countries
• Tectonic plates
• Oceans

What is the theory that all continents were once joined together & then drifted apart?

• Plate Tectonics
• Pangaea
• Continental Drift

What two specific continents fit together most noticeably?

• Africa and North America
• South America and Europe
• South America and Africa
• Antartica and Africa

The Theory of Continental Drift states that the continents drifted together to form Pangaea

• True
• False