Continental Drift & Plate Tectonics Review

The idea of continental drift was first proposed by a scientist named?

• Issac Newton

• Alfred Wegener

• Mr. Frank

• Harry Hess

Pangaea means ____

This picture represents what theory?

• The earth as it grows

• Plate tectonics

• Continental drift

• Nothing

What evidence do we know that supports Wegener's theory?

• There are 7 continents

• People live on all the continents

• Similar fossils and matching rock layers on continents across the oceans

• there is no evidence, the earth always looked this way

What piece of evidence did Wegener NOT find before he died?

• How the continents moved

• Where the mesosaurus came from

• How many continents there would be

• He found all the eviedence

The lithosphere broke into large pieces called

• states

• plates

• lithosphere

• Pangaea

What causes the plates to move?

• Lava

• boiling hot stuff

• Convection currents

• inner core

The new theory about the continents movement is called

• SONAR

• Plate Tectonics

• Ice age

• Fault zones

The place where the earth plates meet, separate or slide past each other is called

• A boundry

• continental drift

• plates

• fault line

Name that boundary

• Convergent boundary

• Divergent boundary

• Transform boundary