Continental Drift & Seafloor Spreading Test Review

What is the name of the 200 million-year-old supercontinent?

• Gondwanaland

• Pangea

• Laurasia

• Pangea Ultimate

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How many major plates are there?

• 7

• 5

• 2

• 1

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Who is known for creating the Continental Drift hypothesis?

• Harry Hess

• Alfred Wegener

• Albert Einstein

• Isaac Newton

What does the theory of continental drift state?

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

• Continents are stationary and do not move.

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

• The continents are disappearing a centimeter each year.

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What evidence did Wegener use in his theory?

• Glacier scars and evidence from temperature

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

• Mountain ranges and coal deposits line up across continents

• Wegener made observations and created his theory

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What two specific continents fit together most noticeably?

• Africa and North America

• South America and Europe

• South America and Africa

• Antartica and Africa

Scientists today believe that there have been several supercontinents like Pangaea and more will eventually form.

• yes

• no

• maybe

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What is the force that moves the continents?

• conduction

• convection currents

• conveyer

• current

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Originally, the Continental Drift theory was not well received by other scientists.  Why?

• There was a competing theory at the time that was more believable.

• There was no data showing the continents ever moved.

• Scientists did not know the force responsible for moving the continents.

• The scientist presenting the data was unreliable.

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When was the theory of Continental Drift widely accepted?

• 1920's

• 1940's

• 1950's

• after 1960's

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