Plate Tectonics and Continental Drift

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

• Harry Hess

• Alfred Wegener

• Galileo

What is this a picture of?

• Pangaea

• Plate tectonics

• Glaciers

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Where did Wegener find plant fossils that today would not be able to survive on that type of land?

• North America

• China

• Antarctica

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

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

• Fossils

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

What two specific continents fit together most noticeably?

• Africa and North America

• South America and Africa

• Antarctica and Africa

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Plates that move apart are called ____________.

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Transform

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Plates that slide, slip and grind past each other are called ____________.

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Transform

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

Plates that push together are called ______________.

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Transform

Where the plates touch is called the ____________.

• Fault

• Continental Drift

• Volcano

The movement of tectonic plates is caused by

• earth's rotation

• movement in the mantle

• gravity

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3