March 21st Plate Tectonics and Continental Drift

Who is the scientist who proposed Continental Drift Theory?

• Albert Einstein
• Alfred Wegener
• Isaac Newton
• John Dalton

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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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What do you call the supercontinent landmass formed million years ago?

• Pangea
• Asia
• Pantallasa
• Eurasi

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What are the two continents the fits together based on Wegener's Theory?

• Asia and Russia
• India and Asia
• South America and Africa
• Africa and Asia

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What are the remains of organism noticed by Wegener that are found the same in two continents?

• Leaves and flowers
• Ice and mountains
• Plants and animals
• Dinosaurs and reptiles

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Of the following statements, which best supports the continental drift theory?

• All oceans are salty
• Igneous rocks are found on all continents 
• Fossils of the same species of extinct land plants have been found in both South America and Africa
• Early humans migrated to North America over a land bridge from eastern Asia

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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

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Fragments or pieces of the earth’s crust

• Tectonic Plates

• The Crust

• The Mantle

• Plate Tectonics

A sudden and violent shaking of the ground, sometimes causing great destruction, as a result of movements within the earth's crust or volcanic action

• Tsunami

• Earthquake.

• Cyclone

• Earthquake

The deepest parts of the ocean floor where one plate is subducting under another plate.

• Pacific Plate

• Divergent Zone

• Trench

• Subduction Zone