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WorksheetsThe Continental Drift Hypothesis
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 10mins
The scientist who proposed the idea of continental drift.
Mrs. Marusarz
Alfred Wegener
Bill Nye
Albert Einstein
Explain the idea of continental drift.
The theory that the continents are slowly moving.
The theory that the continents were once all together.
The theory that energy is not created or destroyed.
The theory that continents never move.
Alfred Wegener developed the theory of __________________ as he noticed that the continents could have once been together like a puzzle.
pangae
super continent
subduction zone
continental drift
Alfred Wegener believed that the continents once fit together as a super continent called __________________.
Continental Drift
Pangaea
Super Continent
Which fossils covered more landmasses to help provide evidence of continental drift?
Coal
Glossopteris plants
Appalachian mountain
Earthworms
Alfred Wegener used all three of these cluse to support his continental drift hypothesis except.
climate clues
fossil clues
rock clues
ocean clues
By using climate clues, Wegener studied the sediments deposited by __________________ in South America, Africa, India, and Australia.
glaciers
mountains
water
trenches
A plate boundary where two plates move toward each other collide and uplift, creating mountains.
convergent
subduction
(ocean-to-continent)
(ocean-to-ocean)
convergent
(continent-to-continent)
divergent
transform
A plate boundary where two plates move toward each and collide but the more dense plate goes under the less denser plate creating volcanic mountains.
convergent
subduction
(ocean-to-continent)
(ocean-to-ocean)
convergent
(continent-to-continent)
divergent
transform
A plate boundary where two plates slide horizontally past one another creating friction that commonly causes earthquakes.
convergent
subduction
(ocean-to-continent)
(ocean-to-ocean)
convergent
(continent-to-continent)
divergent
transform
A plate boundary where two plates move away from each other or separate creating sea floor spreading under the water building new crust. Can also occur in the middle of continents and is known as continental rifting.
convergent
subduction
(ocean-to-continent)
(ocean-to-ocean)
convergent
(continent-to-continent)
divergent
transform
The (a) is broken into eight major plates and many minor ones.
The (a) is the rigid outer shell of the planet. It is made up of the crust and upper mantle.
The lithosphere is broken into (a) plates that move slowly over the lower mantle.
Tectonic plates on the planet's surface move because of (a) currents in the mantle. Hot material rises and cool material sinks.
