Do Now: Continental Drift

Who proposed the theory of continental drift?

• Charles Darwin

• Alfred Wegener

• Isaac Newton

• Albert Einstein

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What was Pangea?

• A type of dinosaur

• A supercontinent that existed millions of years ago

• A large ocean

• A mountain range

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Which of the following is evidence for continental drift?

• The presence of similar fossils on different continents

• The discovery of new planets

• The invention of the telescope

• The development of the steam engine

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What are tectonic plates?

• Large pieces of Earth's crust that move over the mantle

• Small rocks found in rivers

• Layers of clouds in the atmosphere

• Types of plants found in rainforests

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The idea that the continents move around the Earth's surface is called?

• Pangea

• continental drift

• plate tectonics

• sea-floor spreading

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What is the force that moves the continents?

• Conduction

• Convection

• Radiation

• Conveyor belts

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Hypothesis that the continents once formed a single land mass, broke up, and drifted to their present locations is called?

• Landmass shift

• Mass break away

• Continental Drift

• Wet Pancaking

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What is this a picture of?

• plate tectonics
• continental drift
• pangea
• glacier scaring

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Label the diagram.

d

c

e

f

b

a

asthenosphere

mantle

lithosphere

crust

inner core

outer core

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What is the correct order of Earth’s layers?

(starting from the surface)

• crust,

  outer core,

  inner core,

  mantle

• crust,

  outer core,

  inner core,

  mantle

• crust,

  mantle,

  outer core,

  inner core

• inner core,

  outer core,

  mantle,

  crust