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Geological Discoveries

Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name

Class

Date

In what year did Abraham Ortelius state that, "The Americas were torn away from Europe and Africa"?

1785

1596

1912

What did Ortelius create?

The Theory of Pangea

USGS Geographer of the Year Award

the science of cartography

the first atlas of the world called Thesaurus Geographicus

James Hutton is known ....

as The Father of Geology

for creating the first atlas of the world

for the Theory of Continental Drift

creating a mathematical model for predicting tectonic movements

Wegener provided four main facts that support the existence of Pangea. Which one is NOT evidence to support this idea?

the shape of the continents

evidence of ancient climate patterns

matching rock types & geologic structures

the growth of mid ocean ridges

What types of scientist was Alfred Wegener before he began studying Geology?

Meteorlogist

Geologist

Astronomer

Cartographer

Is the sea floor old or young, compared with the rest of the earth's crust?

old

young

Harry Hess found evidence of sea floor spreading. Which fact listed below is evidence of sea floor spreading?

the ancient rock on the ocean floor

deep sea trenches & ocean ridges

the presence of islands

the movement of Greenland

Which scientist used math to explain and predict the movement of tectonic plates?

Alfred Wegener

Harry Hess

Dan McKenzie

James Hutton

How does the mantle create the motion of the plates?

convection currents

viscocity

world tectonics

sea floor spreading

10.

Which scientists discovered that there are two layers, the asthenosphere and the lower mantle, in earth's mantle?

James Hutton

Dan McKenzie

Alfred Wegener

Harry Hess

11.

Who wrote "The Origin of Continents and Oceans" in 1915?

Harry Hess

James Hutton

Alfred Wegener

Dan McKenzie

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Geological Discoveries

Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 6mins

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