Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics

Front

Which of the following is NOT a piece of evidence presented by Wegener to support Continental Drift: Plant and animal fossils on different continents, Matching landforms on different continents, Magnetic striping on the ocean floor, Puzzle fit of modern continents?

Back

Magnetic striping on the ocean floor

Front

What is this a picture of? Options: plate tectonics, continental drift, pangea, glacier scaring

Back

pangea

Front

Originally the Continental drift theory was not well received by other scientists. Why?

Back

Wegener could not explain the mechanism that made continents move

Front

Which of the following scientists discovered sea floor spreading? Wegener, Hess, Einstein, Churchill

Back

Hess

Front

What is an underwater mountain range where new ocean floor is made?

Back

mid-ocean ridge

Front

Plate Tectonics and Continental Drift are the same thing

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False

Front

What two components make up the Plate Tectonic Theory?

Back

Continental Drift and Seafloor Spreading

Front

What evidence helped Harry Hess prove that sea-floor spreading was occurring? Options: Ocean crust gets older as you move away from mid ocean ridges, Underwater mountains, Fossils of plants and animals, Puzzle fit of the continents

Back

Ocean crust gets older as you move away from mid ocean ridges

Front

What evidence helps scientists show how sea floor spreading occurs?

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Age of oceanic crust, Magnetic Stripes, New Crust created at Mid ocean Ridges

Front

Which answer correctly matches the timeline of discoveries: Hess, Sea Floor Spreading, Early 1900's; Wegener, Continental Drift, Early 1950's; Continental Drift 1915, Sea Floor Spreading 1950's, Plate Tectonic Theory 1960's?

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Continental Drift 1915, Sea Floor Spreading 1950's, Plate Tectonic Theory 1960's