Dynamic Earth Part 1 Review

• The Theory of Continental Drift states

• • All the continents were part of a supercontinent called Pangaea

• The continents quickly broke apart

• All the continents are part of a supercontinent called Pangea

• Pangea wouldn't wanna be ya

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Name That Boundary

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Transform

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Name That Boundary

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Transform

Match Alfred's Evidence

• Fossil Evidence: Plants

• • Similar rock formations on the continents in the Northern Hemisphere.

• Puzzle Pieces Evidence

• • Fossils of a plant called Glossopteris have been discovered in rocks from South America, Africa, India, Antarctica, and Australia.

• Rock Formation Evidence

• Fossils of a freshwater reptile called Mesosaurus were discovered in found solely in Southern Africa and Eastern South America

• Fossil Evidence: Animals

• Similarities in the shapes of the continents

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True or False

The continental drift hypothesis suggested that continents are in a constant state of rest on the surface of Earth.

• True

• False

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• 100 years ago, German Climatologist, ________________, published his theory of Continental Drift.

• Alfred

  Pennyworth

• Alfred Schwarzenegger

• Alfred

  Wegener

• DJ Koelling

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During his lifetime, the main objection to Alfred Wegener’s proposal was the inability to find _________________ for continental drift.

• evidence

• forces responsible

• an example

• a timeline

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A break in Earth’s lithosphere along which movement occurs is called a(n) ____.

• Fails

• Faults

• Strain

• Stress

• These seafloor mapping showed large mountain ranges that stretched for many miles along the seafloor and are much larger than any mountain range on land are called___________

• Mid-Ocean Ridges

• Mid-Ocean Trenches

• Underwater Mountains

• Mountains of the Deep

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• A hot plastic-like layer under the lithosphere, flows below Earth’s plates and enables the plates to move.

• Tectonic Plates

• Soggy Crust

• Lithosphere

• Asthenosphere