Continental Drift & Earth's Layers

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

• Pangea
• Asia
• Pantallasa
• Eurasi

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS1-6

Who suggested the Continental Drift theory?

• Aldrin Weiner
• Alfred Wegener
• George Williams
• IDK 😭

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What is the Theory of Continental Drift?

• New continents are continually being created

  and destroyed.

• The layout of the continents is the same today

  as it has always been

• The continents have always been separate but

  may one day drift together to form a single

  continent

• All the continents were once one continent that

  broke up and drifted apart over hundreds of

  millions of years

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What evidence did Wegener use in his theory?

• Continents and fossils fitting together/matching-up like puzzle pieces 
• glacier scars and evidence from temperature
• mountain ranges and coal deposits line up across continents
• all of the above

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

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

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

The mesosaurus is an example of which type of evidence?

• matching fossil

• matching land formation

• climate change

• memorial movement

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

This picture is an example of which type of evidence?

• matching fossil

• matching land formation

• climate change

• memorial movement

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Which layer is the densest?

• Z

• X

• W

• V

Which layer is the thinnest?

• V

• Z

• Y

• X

Which layer has convection currents where the hot, less dense magma rises and the cooler, dense magma sinks?

• inner core

• outer core

• mantle

• crust

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1