T7 2.1 Continental Drift Quiz

What is this a picture of?

• plate tectonics
• continental drift
• Pangea

• glacier scaring

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Which type of information was NOT collected by Wegener to support his continental drift hypothesis?

• glacial deposits
•  fossils
• seafloor spreading data

• rocks

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True or false. Coal found in colder climates indicate that the land used to be in a warmer climate.

• True
• False

What is the Theory of Continental Drift?

• There is a gravitational force that is acting on Earth's land masses, pulling them apart at a rate of 1-2 cm per year.

• The continents are located exactly where they will remain for the next 250 million years.

• The Earth was once a molten mass that has since cooled and contracted, separating the continents by vast oceans.

• The continents were once together in one large land mass but they have since drifted apart.

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What do you call the evidence of Wegener's Theory that tells about the remains of an organism that lived long time ago?

• Bones

• Folicles

• Fossils

• Ashes

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What are the types of Evidence that supports Alfred Wegener's Theory? 

• Fossils, Fish, and Land

• Climate, Land forms, and Metamorphosis

• Sedimentary, Magma, and Climate

• Fossil and rock evidence

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What makes up Earth's lithosphere?

• Crust & Lower Mantle

• Mantle & Core

• Continental Crust, Oceanic Crust & Uppermost Mantle

• Upper Mantle & Core

The movement of tectonic plates is caused by what?

• Thermodynamics

• Earth's Rotation

• Convection currents in the Mantle

• Gravitational Pull

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Which layer is the largest layer of the Earth?

• crust

• mantle

• outer core

• inner core

Which form of heat transfer is in the asthenosphere and causes the tectonic plates to move around?

• conduction

• convection

• radiation

• condensation

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