Earth's Layers and Movement

This is the layer of Earth that we live on

• Inner core
• Outer Core
• Crust
• Mantle

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The theory that pieces of Earth's lithosphere are in constant motion driven by convection currents in the mantle.

• Plate movements

• Plate tectonics

• Lithospheric shifts

• Lithospheric tectonics

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This layer of Earth is the thickest part.

• crust
• outer core
• mantle
• inner core

The layer that lies beneath the mantle and surrounds the inner core. 

• mantle
• outer core
• inner core
• crust

Who is the scientist who proposed Continental Drift Theory?

• Albert Einstein
• Alfred Wegener
• Isaac Newton
• John Dalton

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

• Pangea
• Asia
• Pantallasa
• Eurasi

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What are the remains of organism noticed by Wegener that are found the same in two continents?

• Leaves and flowers
• Ice and mountains
• Plants and animals
• Dinosaurs and reptiles

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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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According to Wegener's hypothesis of continental drift,

• Earth's surface is made up of seven major landmasses

• the continents DO NOT move

• Earth is slowly cooling and shrinking

• the continents were once joined together in a single landmass, and these plates will continue to move.

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Plate movement is caused by ____________.

• the rotation of the Earth

• convection currents in the mantle

• ocean tides

• the moon's gravity

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