The Earth

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

• Harry Hess
• Galileo
• Alfred Wegener
• Newton

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What is this a picture of?

• plate tectonics

• continental drift

• Pangaea

• glacier scaring

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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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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

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Tectonic plates:

• can move towards each other

• can move away from each other

• can slide past each other

• All of the above

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What are Tectonic plates?

• Large moving pieces on Earth's surface that are made of rock.

• where two plates divide

• The inner core of the earth

• where magma rises up and solidifies

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What is subduction?

• where one tectonic plate sinks below another

• Where two plates slide

• Where two plates divide

• Where two plates collide

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Flood waters moving soil from one location to another

• Weathering
• Erosion

What is weathering?

• The process by which
  water, ice, wind or gravity
  moves fragments of rock
  and soil.
• The process by which
  water, ice, wind or gravity
  deposit rock sediments
  and soil in a new place.
• The breaking down of
  Earth’s crust into smaller
  and smaller pieces.

What is erosion?

• The process by which
  water, ice, wind or gravity
  moves fragments of rock
  and soil.
• The process by which
  water, ice, wind or gravity
  deposit rock sediments
  and soil in a new place.
• The breaking down of
  Earth’s crust into smaller
  and smaller pieces.

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