Continental Drift, Seafloor Spreading, and Plate Tectonics

Divergent Plate movement can create

• Convection Currents

• Conduction

• Mountains

• Rifts and ocean ridges

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During sea floor spreading, molten material rises up from the mantle...

• along the continents

• at the mid ocean ridges

• deep ocean trenches

• at north and south poles

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The theory that the continents have not always been in their present locations but have moved there over millions of years

• Continental Drift Theory

• Plate Tectonics

• Alfred Wegener

• Lystrasaurus

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The place where two plates meet.

• plate boundary

• tectonic plate

• asthenosphere

• crust

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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

• Seafloor Spreading

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The hypothesis that land masses spread apart from each other and have done so in the past is known as

• Divergent Plate Boundary 

• Tension

• Plate Tectonics

• Continental drift

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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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The hypothesis that Pangaea was a supercontinent that broke apart causing the continents to move into their current locations is known as continental ______.

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The theory that explains the movement of continents over time

• Plate Tectonics

• Continental Drift

• Plate Motion

• Seafloor Spreading

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

• Harry Hess

• Alfredo Sauce

• Alfred Wegener

• Alfred the Butler

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