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History of Plate Tectonics

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Question 1
1.

Plate tectonics theory wasnt accepted because no one could adequately answer what question?

Question 2
2.

In the late sixteenth century, ______________ noted that by carefully considering the coastlines of the atlantic ocean, it appeared that the Americans had been torn away from Europe and Africa.

Question 3
3.

Who proposed a "sinking of the land between continents" ?

Question 4
4.

What year was the theory of "sinking" put forth?

Question 5
5.

_______________ proposed the contienents were together at one point because of found fossil records

Question 6
6.

In __________ Lord Kelvin help conduct Bathymetric surveys unvieling an extensive sumbarine moutain range.

Question 7
7.

Match the scientist to their discoveries

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RD Oldham
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Layers of the Earth
Joseph Barrell
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Core of the Earth
A Mohorovicic
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Crust-mantle boundary
Emil Wiechert
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Lithosphere and Asthenosphere
Question 8
8.

Continental drift was supported by rock types, geological structures, and fossils.

Question 9
9.

Alfred Wegeners hypothesis was that the plates moved because of

Question 10
10.

Who proposed mantle convection?

Question 11
11.

Who had her work stolen on the expansion of rift valleys?

Question 12
12.

Who confirmed this expansion of the rifts using magnetic striping?

Question 13
13.

Gravity affects the plates by

Question 14
14.

Why were the oceans not hospitable?

Question 15
15.

The mantle was just too hot, that why we had a supercontinent early in Earths history.

Question 16
16.

Why are old rocks hard to find?

Question 17
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1.8 Billion years ago, the supercontinent was called __________ and began the Boring Billion

Question 18
18.

What other planets have our type of plate tectonics?