Continental Drift & Plate Tectonics

The theory proposed that the continent have been drifting apart since 200 million years ago

• Seafloor Spreading

• Continental drift

• Big Bang Theory

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Was all the land on the Earth on a supercontinent.

• Pangaea

• Eureka

• Latinamerica

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Who developed the Theory of Continental Drift?

• Harry Hess

• Alfred Wegener

• Albert Einstein

• Snoop Dogg

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Select types of evidence for continental drift.

• Similar types of Rocks and fossils

• Moon pieces on Earth and water on Antartica

• Life on Mars

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Why was continental drift rejected?

• because there were no evidence

• because the scientists were mean

• because none can explain it

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Who was Harry Hess and what did he propose?

• Was a superhero, proposed big bang theory

• was a scientist, proposed continental drift

• was a scientist, proposed seafloor spreading

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The geologic process occurs at the boundary between 2 plates where molten material within the earth pushes its way up, causing the plates to move away from each other.

• seafloor spreading

• continental drift

• Big Bang Theory

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The process where one plate is pushed underneath another.

• elevation

• conduction

• subduction

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when 2 plates are pulling apart the movement is:

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when 2 plates collide toward each other the movement is:

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