Plate Tectonic Theory

The theory that continents were once connected but have drifted apart.

• Continental Drift

• Plate Tectonics

• Pangaea

• wingardium leviosa

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Who was the German scientist that used fossil evidence and the shape of continents to support his hypothesis for Continental Drift?

• Alfred Wegener

• Harry Hess

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Which of the following was NOT an evidence that Wegener used to support Continental Drift?

• Shape of Continents

• Geologic evidence

• Fossil evidence

• Convection currents

How did Wegener explain that fossils of the same land dwelling reptile appeared on the coastlines of two distant continents?

• The continents were once joined together. As they separated, they took the dinosaur fossils with them.

• The dinosaurs evolved independently on multiple continents.

• The land reptile walked across land bridges that stretched across the Atlantic ocean.

• The land reptile swam across the Atlantic ocean.

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What is the name of the supercontinent that Wegener theorized existed 250 million years ago?

• Pangaea

• Titan

• Cambria

• The OASIS

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What was the name of the Navy officer that was one of the "founding fathers" of the unifying theory of plate tectonics?

• Harry Hess

• Alfred Wegener

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One of the largest mountain ranges in the world is at the bottom of the ocean. It is an example of a -

• mid-ocean ridge

• rift valley

• trench

• volcanic island chain

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The process in which a denser plate is pushed beneath a less dense plate when the two plates converge.

• subduction

• polarity reversal

• convection

• seafloor spreading

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Which one of the following was NOT a reason that Hess used to support his theory of plate tectonics?

• Rugged topography of ocean floor

• Seafloor spreading and subduction

• Symmetrical pattern of polarity stripes

• Climate change

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Why are there no fossils on the ocean floor that are more than 300 million years old?

• Seafloor spreading and subduction

• Reversal of polarity

• Climate change

• Oil companies drilling for petroleum

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