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Total questions: 24
Worksheet time: 13mins
He proposed the Continental Drift Theory.
Francis Bacon
Alfred Wegener
Harry Hess
Benjamin Franklin
He hypothesized that all continents were once part of a supercontinent called ________.
Pangaea
Gondwana
Laurasia
Asia
What are the evidences of Wegener's Theory?
1. Fit to coastlines
2. Rocks and Mountain Ranges
3. Tidal Waves
4. Seafloor Spreading
1. Fit of the Coastlines
2. Fossil Evidence
3. Rocks and Mountain Ranges
4. Paleoclimatic Evidence
This fossil was a woody plant that had very heavy seeds that could not be moved by the wind to far distances.
European flora
Mesosaurus
Glossopteris
Cynognathus
What do you call the marks that glaciers leave as they slowly move?
Striations
Satriations
Sitritions
Satritions
What are Tectonic Plates/
A continent
The plate that move the Continents
The plates that move underground
We can use rocks and mountain ranges as evidence for continental drift theory.
True
False
What was the objection that critics had about Wegener's continental drift theory?
He could not provide any evidence to support the theory
Findings had no basis
Idea of mechanism capable of moving the continents physically impossible
He published 'The History of Ocean Basins" in 1962. This theory later became known as Seafloor Spreading.
Alfred Wegener
Harry Hess
Francis Bacon
John Wilson
He proposed that Earth's crust was divided into several plates that fits together like puzzle along the cracks of the lithosphere.
Alfred Wegener
Harry Hess
John Wilson
Francis Bacon
It is the process which heat is transferred by the movement of a heated fluid.
Convection
Ridge Push
Slab pull
It happens because mid-ocean ridges lies at a higher elevation than the surrounding abyssal plains or seafloor causing the gravitational force to act on the rocks at the ridge.
convection
ridge push
slab pull
It is the pulling force exerted by colder, denser plate plunging into the mantle due to its own weight.
convection
ridge push
slab pull
Convection happens because of changes in ________ and ________ of a material
temperature/density
volume/mass
What is the source of the heat that causes convection to happen?
Radioactive Ionization
Radioactive Decay
In what layer of the Earth does convection happen?
Lithosphere
Asthenosphere or upper mantle
Mantle
Inner core
What are the 7 major tectonic plates on Earth?
(a)
Identify the plate boundary
Divergent Plate Boundary
Convergent Plate Boundary
Transform Plate Boundary
Seafloor Spreading
Identify the image
Divergent Plate Boundary
Convergent Plate Boundary
Seafloor Spreading
Transform plate Boundary
Identify the image
Divergent Plate Boundary
Convergent Plate Boundary
Transform Plate boundary
Identify the image
Divergent Plate Boundary
Convergent Plate Boundary
Transform Plate Boundary
Which is the Oceanic-Oceanic Plate Convergence
Which is the continental-continental plate convergence?
Which is the Oceanic-Continental Plate Convergence?
