Continental drift
By Erin Smoak
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Last updated about 4 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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Who first proposed the theory of continental drift?
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What year did Wegener publish his book?
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What was Wegener's theory called?
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What did Wegener's book have in it?
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What were Wegner's 3 lines of evidence?
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What were 2 of the fossils that Wegener used as part of his evidence?
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What 2 places did they find tropical plant fossils that are currently covered in ice?
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What did Wegener find in South Africa?
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What kind of rock was in both North America and Scotland?
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What did Wegener name the supercontinent?
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What was the main reason that most scientists rejected Wegener's hypothesis?
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When was this theory revisited?
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What caused scientisit to revisit continental drift?
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What did sonar find on the ocean bottom?
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All are evidence to support the theory of continental drift EXCEPT
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What new technology did scientists use to map the bathymetry of the ocean floor?
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Magnetic stripes are ____________ on either side of the mid ocean ridge.
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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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What new technology did scientists use to find changes on either side of the mid-ocean ridge?
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Where is the youngest seafloor?
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Sea-floor spreads apart at both sides of a _____ as new crust is added.
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Drilling samples revealed that rock samples taken farther from a mid-ocean ridge are
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What new information led to the expanding earth theory?
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When continental plates collide what landform is made?
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Which type of plates go under other plates?
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What mixes with rock to melt it?
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What causes the volcanoes on the ring of fire?
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What is the example of a transform fault (where plates slide past each other)?
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Label the direction of plate movement and convection in the asthenosphere for a divergent plate boundary. Draw arrows!
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Label the direction of plate movement and convection in the asthenosphere for a convergent plate boundary. Draw arrows!
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Explain what happens during the process of subduction in your own words.
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Label the direction of plate movement of a transform plate boundary. Draw arrows!