Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics

How did scientists react when Alfred Wegener first published his thoery of Continental Drift?

• They called it "Boy Talk" and dismissed it

• They celebrated him and used his research to come up with the study of Plate Tectonics

• They laughed at him and said he was wrong

• They believed him, but they were not happy about it.

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What was the problem with Wegener's Theory of continental drift?

• It could not explain how the continents were moving

• He falsely stated that matching fossils were found on different continents

• He couldn't show evidence of matching rock formations

• The idea of the Earth being a puzzle was too outrageous to accept

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Which is NOT evidence used to support the Theory of Plate Tectonics?

• Some continents have similar coastlines to each other

• Fossils of the same animals were found on different continents

• Some animals used land bridges to travel between continents

• There was evidence of glaciers found in areas that are now very warm

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The presence of the same ______ on several continents supports the hypotihesis of continental drift

• fossils

• rocks

• neither rocks nor fossils

• both rocks and fossils

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Some early mapmakers thought that the coastline of South America matched the coastline of _______.

• Asia

• North America

• Australia

• Africa

A lack of explanation for continental drift prevented many scientists from accepting that a single supercontinent called ______ once existed.

• Glomar

• Patagonia

• Pangaea

• Wegneragea

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Matching _____ on different continents are evidence for continental drift.

• river systems

• rock structures

• weather patterns

• wind systems

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Wegener's hypothesis that all continents were once connected in a single alrge landmass that broke apart about 200 million years ago and drifted slowly to their current positions is:

• Mariana Trench

• Continental Drift

• Seafloor Spreading

• Oceanic Shift

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A long, narrow mountain range on the ocean floor that was formed by magma is called:

• Mid-Ocean Ridge

• Ocean Trench

• Seafloor Spreading

• Lava

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A deep, underwater trough created by one plate subducting under another place at a convergent boundary is called

• Ocean Ridge

• Ocean Trench

• Divergent Boundary

• Plate Tectonics

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