ACES - Plate Tectonics

Who proposed the Continental Drift Theory?

• Harry Hammond Hess

• Alfred Wegener

• Arthur Holmes

• Robert Deitz

Who modified the Continental Drift Theory?

• Harry Hammond Hess

• Alfred Wegener

• Arthur Holmes

• Robert Deitz

This device was used to map the ocean floor and eventually led to discovery of the Mid-Ocean Ridges and Ocean Trenches.

• SONAR

• Echo Sounding

• GPS

• Submarines

What is the supercontinent that later on separated to two regions: Laurasia and Gondwanaland?

First person to have the idea that continents move?

• Edward Seuss

• Abraham Ortelius

• Robert Mantovani

• Frank Bursely Taylor

Seafloor stripes on either side of the ridge that move outwards.

• Seafloor Magnetic Stripes

• Magnetic Anomaly Detection

• Reversals

• Glacial Indifference

The rocks closest to the central ridge were the youngest.

• TRUE

• FALSE

After approximately a million years, the poles remain the same position.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Wegener was able to provide an adequate explanation for his theory.

• TRUE

• FALSE

What were the evidences that the Continental Drift happened?

• Disease, Plants, Animal Remains, Technology, Glaciers, and Mountains

• Fossils, Disease, Rocks, Weather, Glaciers, and Mountains

• Creation of Hemispheres, Fossils, Land Bridges, Glaciers, and Mountains

• Fossils, Climate Mismatches, Rocks, and Mountains