Changing Geography and Density

Eduard Suess proposed mountains formed as what happened?

• Mountains formed by the Earth cooling and contracting

• Mountains formed by meteor impacts
• Mountains formed by erosion wearing down the land
• Earth's crust being compressed and uplifted due to tectonic forces

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What evidence did Suess cite for there being a super continent he called Gondwanaland?

• mountains

• climate change

• shrinking

• fossils

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Which scientist proposed the hypothesis of continental drift?

• Charles Darwin
• Harry Hess

• Alfred Wegener
• Eduard Suess

What new discovery happened during Wegner's time that disproved the ideas of the Earth cooling?

• Magnetic field reversal
• Plate tectonics
• Volcanic eruptions
• Radioactive decay

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What supercontinent did Wegner propose existed?

• Atlantis
• Pangaea
• Gondwana
• Laurasia

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What evidence did Wegner use to support his hypothesis of continental drift?

• similarity of rocks

• puzzle-like fit of continents

• geologic structures

• fossils

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Some scientists saw the folds on mountain ranges as evidence of shrinking, but Wegner proposed they came from this

• horizontal compression

• vertical compression

• climate change

• isostatic rebound

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What piece of evidence for continental drift came about in the 1960s?

• Fossil evidence
• Magnetic striping on the ocean floor
• Volcanic activity
• Seafloor spreading

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The record of the past orientation and polarity of Earth's magnetic field recorded in rocks containing the mineral magnetite is known as

• magnetization
• paleomagnetism
• geomagnetism
• magnetic field strength

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What do some scientists propose will form in another 250 million years?

• A new supermoon
• A new superocean
• A new superplanet
• A new supercontinent

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