Earth History Lsa Review Theory of Continental Drift Plate Tectonics

A scientific theory that explains how major

landforms are created as a result of Earth’s subterranean

movements.

• Pangea

• Continental drift theory

• Plate tectonics

• Seafloor spreading

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A German Scientist who proposed that the continents moved over time.

• Alfred Wegener

• Albert Einstein

• Harry Hess

• Galileo Galilei

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These are remains of dead plants or animals preserved in rock.

• Glaciers

• Dinosaurs

• Bones

• Fossils

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This was the super continent, where all of the Earth’s continents were connected together

• Beringia

• Pantheon

• Pangaea

• Continentia

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Wegener observed scratches from glaciers in Africa and India where it is currently too hot for glaciers to form. This is considered...

• Fossil Evidence

• Rock Formation Evidence

• Climate Evidence

• Objective Evidence

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What was the name of Alfred Wegeners Theory?

• Seafloor Spreading Theory

• Pangaea Theory

• Plate Tectonics Theory

• Continental Drift Theory

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Why was Wegener's hypothesis not accepted?

• He could not explain what force was moving the continents

• He was a meteorologists, so no one took him seriously

• He did not have enough types of fossils to support his theory

• Because scientists thought Harry Hess' theory was better

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During sea floor spreading, molten material rises up from the mantle...

• along the continents
• at the mid ocean ridges
• deep ocean trenches
• at north and south poles

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Which of the following is where one plate slides under another plate?

• submarine zone
• divergence zone
• subduction zone
• lower zone

Name the boundary

• convergent boundary
• divergent boundary
• transform boundary
• sergent boundary