Evidence of Plate Tectonics

What do you call the supercontinent landmass formed million years ago?

• Pangaea

• Asia

• Pantallasa

• Eurasi

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What evidence did Wegener use to support his theory?

• Continents and fossils fitting together/matching-up like puzzle pieces 
• glacier scars and other climate evidence from temperature
• mountain ranges and rocks line up across continents
• all of the above

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

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

• Harry Hess
• Galileo
• Alfred Wegener
• Newton

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

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, and these plates will continue to move.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Scientists did not believe Wegener's theory because Continental Drift is a slow process and he could not explain...

• how to measure the continents.

• how the continents move.

• Wegener being a silly man.

• Antarctica having fern fossils.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What type of evidence was NOT used by Alfred Wegener to support his continental drift hypothesis?

• evidence from landforms
• evidence from fossils
• evidence from human remains
• evidence from climate

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Where do volcanoes and earthquakes occur?

• Under the flat surface of plates

• Above the flat surface of the plates

• Along plate boundaries

• At the center of plate

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Which of the following is evidence of seafloor spreading?

• matching fossils on either side of the mid-ocean ridge

• evidence of tropical plant fossils on the seafloor

• same rock types in both North America and Africa

• the magnetic striping on the seafloor on either side of the mid-ocean ridges

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

This picture is an example of which type of evidence?

• matching fossil

• matching land formation

• climate change

• memorial movement

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

This picture is an example of which type of evidence?

• matching fossil

• matching land formation

• climate change

• memorial movement

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS4-1