Review

Who is the scientist who proposed Continental Drift Theory?

• Albert Einstein

• Alfred Wegener

• Isaac Newton

• John Dalton

What layer has a solid inner part and a liquid outer part?

• Crust

• Mantle

• Core

• none

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

What layer is the thinnest?

• Crust 

• Mantle

• Core

• They are all the same size

What layer is made of plates that move around and bump into each other?

• Crust

• Mantle

• Core

• All of them

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Which layer has a part that is thick  with a clay-like consistency that transfers heat through convection?

• Crust

• Mantle

• Core

• All of them

Which layer is the thickest?

• Crust

• Mantle

• Core

• All of them are the same size

What are the three main layers of the Earth?

• Center, Middle, Outer

• Center, Mantle, Crush

• Core, Mantle, Crust

• Core, Middle, Crush

A German scientist Alfred Wegener was the first to hypothesize that ...........

• Continents were once joined

• The sea floor is spreading

• Continents are moving

• The Earth's magnetic pole flips

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

One of the fossils Wegener used to support his hypothesis of continental drift was

• Glossopteris

• Trilobite

• insects in tree amber

• ammonite molds

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Peer scientists reviewing Wegener’s hypothesis of continental drift rejected his notion because

• His evidence was too few to make a valid conclusion 

• He did not explain how continents move and what moves them

• His evidence was not clear in showing  how continents were joined

• He lied by including false evidence