Continental Drift

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

• Harry Hess
• Galileo
• Alfred Wegener
• Newton

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This is a picture of glacier scars found in Africa.  What are these evidence for?

• Africa has always been near the equator
• Africa was once in an area of the Earth that had a very cold climate
• The continents have not moved
• sea floor spreading

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What evidence did Wegener use in his theory?

• Continents and fossils fitting together/matching-up like puzzle pieces

• glacier striations and evidence from temperature

• mountain ranges and coal deposits line up across continents

• all of the above

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What two specific continents fit together most noticeably?

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

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How long ago is Pangea believed to have existed?

• 200-300 million years ago
• 1000-2000 years ago
• 10,000-20,000 years ago
• 20-30 billion years ago

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What drives tectonic plate movement? 

• gravity
• coriolis effect
• convection currents
• the earth's magnetic core

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The OLDEST seafloor is located? 

• Closest to the mid-ocean ridge
• Farthest from the mid-ocean ridge

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What technology was used during WWII to detect enemy submarines and produce the first map of the seafloor?

• Sonar
• Radar
• GPS

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This is the plastic layer of the mantle on which pieces of the lithosphere move.

• Lithosphere
• Asthenosphere
• Mesosphere
• Crust

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What do you call the evidence of Wegener's Theory that tells about the remains of an organism that lived long time ago?

• Ashes
• Bones
• Follicles
• Fossils

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