Continental Drift Theory

What was Wegener’s continental drift idea?

• The continents have moved slowly apart to their current locations.

• The continents have always been located at their current locations.

• The continents are moving slowly together from their current locations.

• None of these

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

• Harry Hess
• Galileo Galilei

• Alfred Wegener
• Sir issac

  Newton

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True or False-Similar fossil records across continents was evidence for continental drift.

• True

• False

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Alfred Wegener named his single supercontinent ____________, which means "all Earth" in ancient Greek.

• Pandora

• Gandowandaland

• Pangaea

• Percia

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What is the force that moves the continents?

• Conduction

• Convection

• Radiation

• Conveyor belts

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This is a picture of glacier scars found in Africa.  What are these evidence for?

• Africa has always been near the equator
• Africa was once in an area of the Earth that had a very cold climate
• The continents have not moved
• sea floor spreading

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What evidence did Wegener use to support his theory?

• Continents and fossils fitting together/matching-up like puzzle pieces

• glacier scars and other climate evidence from temperature

• mountain ranges and rocks line up across continents

• all of the above

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What does the theory of continental drift state?

• The continents were once joined in a super-continent and have moved over time

• Continents are stationary and do not move

• The Earth is broken into lithospheric plates that move due to convection currents

• none of the above

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The circular arrows inside the Earth's Mantle represent what type of motion, that drives ALL plate movement?  

• Convergent Boundary
• Ocean Currents
• Convection Currents
• Transform Boundary

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Tectonic plates consist of____.

• Continental crust

• Oceanic Crust

• Both continental and oceanic

• Asthenosphere

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