Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics

Who is the person credited with developing the theory of continental drift?

• Harry Hess
• Galileo
• Alfred Wegener
• Newton

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Why did no one believe Wegener's theory?

• He could not explain how the continents moved

• He didn't have evidence

• His data was wrong

• He didn't use the right technology to gather data

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Why did no one believe Wegener's theory?

• He could not explain how the continents moved

• He didn't have evidence

• His data was wrong

• He didn't use the right technology to gather data

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According to Wegener's hypothesis of continental drift, 

• Earth's surface is made up of seven major landmasses
• the continents DO NOT move
• Earth is slowly cooling and shrinking
• the continents were once joined together in a single landmass

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What type of evidence was NOT used by Alfred Wegener to support his continental drift hypothesis?

• evidence from rock formations

• evidence from fossils

• evidence from human remains

• evidence from glaciers

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What do you call the supercontinent landmass formed million years ago?

• Pangea
• Asia
• Pantallasa
• Eurasi

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Earth's lithospheric plates move at a rate of a few _____________ every year.

• centimeters

• miles

• kilometers

• yards

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A tectonic plate is ____.

• what cavemen ate dinner on

• the Earth

• pieces of Earth's crust

• an underground mountain

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When crust is neither created nor destroyed, what boundary is it formed along?

• convergent

• divergent

• collisional

• transform

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What would you likely find at a convergent boundary between two pieces of continental crust?

• volcano

• mountains

• rift

• ridge

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