Plate Tectonics

What is the Theory of Continental Drift?

• New continents are continually being created

  and destroyed.

• The layout of the continents is the same today

  as it has always been

• The continents have always been separate but

  may one day drift together to form a single

  continent

• All the continents were once one continent that

  broke up and drifted apart over hundreds of

  millions of years

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What is this a picture of?

• plate tectonics

• continental drift

• pangea

• glacier scaring

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

• There was a competing theory at the time that was more believable.

• There was no data showing the continents ever moved.

• Wegener could not explain the mechanism that made continents move

• The scientist presenting the data was unreliable.

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

• subduction

• mid-ocean ridge

• deep-sea trench

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True or False: The plates are currently moving

• True
• False

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What type of tectonic plate boundary involves a collision of plates?

• transform

• divergent

• convergent

• obstructive

What type of boundary exists when 2 plates are pulling apart?

• Convergent

• Transform

• Obtrusive

• Divergent

A German scientist who first had the idea of continental drift.

• Albert Einstein

• Galileo

• Alfred Wegener

• Gladys West

What is the correct order (starting from the surface) of Earth's layers?

• crust, mantle, inner core, outer core
• mantle, outer core, inner core, crust
• inner core, outer core, mantle, crust
• crust, mantle, outer core, inner core

This layer is where we live and is made of cool solid rock

• Crust

• Mantle

• Core

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