PRETEST ~ Continental Drift & Plate Tectonics Theory

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Who is the person credited with developing the Hypothesis of Continental Drift?

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Alfred Wegener

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What is this a picture of?

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Pangaea

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What evidence helped support Wegener's hypothesis of continental drift? Similar fossils are found along continental margins that appear to join together. Fossils are found in areas where the present-day climate could not have supported the organisms that made the fossils. Rock layers across the continents are composed of identical rock types.

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all of the above

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What is the mechanism that explains how the continents drifted according to Wegener's hypothesis?

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Mantle Convection

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The crust and the uppermost mantle make up the ________________.

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lithosphere

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What is the Continental Drift Theory?

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the belief that continents have moved slowly apart to their current locations on Earth

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What layer of Earth contains the plates that cause earthquakes and volcanic eruptions?

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The lithosphere which contains the crust and upper mantle.

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The layer of the Earth that is responsible for the movement of the plates.

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asthenosphere

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What type of boundary is shown in the diagram?

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Convergent

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What type of boundary is shown in the diagram?

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Transform