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Last updated about 6 years ago
32 questions
Note from the author:
This is about the history of plate tectonics starting with continental drift and going forward with new technologies.
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Question 1
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Who first proposed the theory of continental drift?

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Question 15
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All are evidence to support the theory of continental drift EXCEPT

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Question 16
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What new technology did scientists use to map the bathymetry of the ocean floor?

Question 17
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Magnetic stripes are ____________ on either side of the mid ocean ridge.

Question 18
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Rocks on the sea-floor that lie in a pattern, show a record of the reversals of

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Question 21
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Sea-floor spreads apart at both sides of a _____ as new crust is added.

Question 22
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Drilling samples revealed that rock samples taken farther from a mid-ocean ridge are

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Question 23
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What new information led to the expanding earth theory?

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Question 29
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Label the direction of plate movement and convection in the asthenosphere for a divergent plate boundary. Draw arrows!

Question 30
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Label the direction of plate movement and convection in the asthenosphere for a convergent plate boundary. Draw arrows!

Question 31
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Explain what happens during the process of subduction in your own words.

Question 32
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Label the direction of plate movement of a transform plate boundary. Draw arrows!

Question 2
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What year did Wegener publish his book?

Question 3
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What was Wegener's theory called?

Question 4
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What did Wegener's book have in it?

Question 5
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What were Wegner's 3 lines of evidence?

Question 6
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What were 2 of the fossils that Wegener used as part of his evidence?

Question 7
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What 2 places did they find tropical plant fossils that are currently covered in ice?

Question 8
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What did Wegener find in South Africa?

Question 9
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What kind of rock was in both North America and Scotland?

Question 10
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What did Wegener name the supercontinent?

Question 11
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What was the main reason that most scientists rejected Wegener's hypothesis?

Question 12
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When was this theory revisited?

Question 13
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What caused scientisit to revisit continental drift?

Question 14
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What did sonar find on the ocean bottom?

Question 19
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What new technology did scientists use to find changes on either side of the mid-ocean ridge?

Question 20
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Where is the youngest seafloor?

Question 24
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When continental plates collide what landform is made?

Question 25
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Which type of plates go under other plates?

Question 26
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What mixes with rock to melt it?

Question 27
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What causes the volcanoes on the ring of fire?

Question 28
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What is the example of a transform fault (where plates slide past each other)?